- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1952
Classic-feeling storytelling with bags of charm. Fans of thrilling animal adventure and enchanting underground worlds will fall in love with Wishyouwas. It’s 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th century
Set in the 17th century, a breathtaking debut, and a potential prize-winner, about the power of women, witchcraft, fury, revenge and the ties that bind us. After witnessing the brutal murder of her mother by witch-hunters, Evey vows to...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
There’s a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs in the family. A middle-grade graphic novel adventure filled with magical hjinks for fans of Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Making...
- Location(s): Philadelphia, Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1954
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th / early 21st centuries
24 themed chapters. Each with 10 numbered paragraphs. Each paragraph with precisely 120 words. The sum of a life. In his beautiful and haunting new book, Charles Lambert explores the fragmentary nature of memory, how the piecing together of...
With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s
- Location(s): Australia, Scotland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s and 70s
Does looking back help you move forward? Not always. But, like Catherine’s first two memoirs, writing With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s, came at the right time for her after...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Europe, South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Present day
With a foreword by Lee Child. Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me,...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan—exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning husband. She becomes fixated on finding the one person who ever truly understood her: her college roommate, Daisy. Cool, poetry-reading Daisy, who vanished...
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a woman inherits her estranged mother’s bookstore in London’s Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story–hers–filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of...
With Love, The Argentina Family
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
With Love, The Argentina Family ~ Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes is a unique account, enlightening and inspirational with its autobiographical genuineness. The story unfolds in “die goldene medina” -America-sharing the insecurities and confusion of a...
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