- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Current
DCI Jack Robson believes he is hunting a kidnapper… Away from his posting in London, Robson is asked to lead an investigation in the south west of England. But what begins as a baffling local kidnapping mystery,...
- Location(s): Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The vulnerability of human beings subject to the vast forces of nature is a theme at the heart of this engrossing novel, which washes over the reader’s imagination with the force of a tidal wave as its protagonists embark...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s
Norah Thornby can no longer afford to live in her grand family home in the centre of Silkhampton. Unless, perhaps, she can find a respectable lodger. But Nurse Lettie Quick is not nearly as respectable as she seems....
- Location(s): Arkansas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“Arkansas” is a biting first novel full of wet T-shirt contests, illicit drugs, and cross-country road trips. There are the days: the dappled grounds, the aimless yardwork, the hours in the booth giving directions to families in SUVs. And...
Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the...
- Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1794
In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...
- Location(s): World
- Era(s): N/A
Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet’s lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker’s pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the...
As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
Laurie Lee knows one sentence in Spanish – will you please give me a glass of water. That is enough to take him down to the South Coast of England over to Spain at a time when all the...
- Location(s): Burnham-on-Sea
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Rock climbing is now a blood sport. Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, is dead. Killed in a fall whilst practising a new route on High Rock, Cheddar Gorge. Convinced that Jake would not have made...
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