- Location(s): Bern
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Struggling with guilt over her sister’s death and the stress of her medical residency, Maya Radelis runs away to Scotland. A robin seems to lead her to an antique shop, where she finds a century-old engagement ring. But what...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, relatable, family. Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn’t happen to us. And then there’s a secret third...
- Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died and she is knocked sideways by grief and loneliness, moving between the restaurant where she waitresses for the Harvard elite and the...
- Location(s): Damascus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Then, she looked at me assiduously, “What is it that you do exactly?” I replied, savoring my last sip of coffee, with all the sass of a gypsy, “A novelist.” How to write a novel? Where to find inspiration?...
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A darkly humorous coming-of-age novel set in Brunei on the island of Borneo, Written in Black offers a snapshot of a few days in the life of ten-year-old Jonathan Lee, attending the funeral of his Ah Kong, or grandfather,...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: You may choose what you want to be when you grow up, but we will choose your husband. Dating, even a friendship with a boy, is forbidden. So when...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd delivers an all-new thriller, featuring a bold and brash female protagonist. WRONG JOB Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and...
- Location(s): Scotland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2002-2009
WWOOFing North and South describes the author’s time as a WWOOFer in New Zealand and Scotland. She travels widely encountering an eclectic mix of people and animals. She gets butted by a billy goat, chased by geese, mobbed by...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): End of 20th Century
In the summer of 1972, a group of friends is invited to Somerset to help photographer Seymour Stratton renovate a dilapidated cottage on Wyld Farm. Over the next year the group come to regard the farm as offering them...
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