Etta and Otto and Russell and James
- Location(s): Canada, Saskatchewan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression and of the two pupils who fall...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
It is December 1932 and Andrew Bankson, isolated for several years whilst studying a tribe in New Guinea, is increasingly frustrated by his research. Then on Christmas Eve, he meets Nell Stone, famous and controversial anthropologist, and her wry,...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1920s
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 13th – 17th February 2012. Best known as the author of ‘The Road to Oxiana’ (published in 1937), Robert Byron developed his considerable writing skills on a travel book which has not...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Autofiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Traversing the country in a hired cab,...
- Location(s): Berchtesgaden
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1944
In the summer of 1944 Gertraud Weisker 20 years old when her cousin Eva Braun invited her to come and keep her company at Berchtesgaden. This is the story of her fascination with the easy, glamourous lifestyle of her...
- Location(s): Nepal, London, Mount Everest, Shropshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s and 2014
Twenty years ago, Hugo and Ash were on top of the world. As the acclaimed rock band Ashbirds they were poised for superstardom. Then Ash went missing, lost in a mountaineering accident, and the lives of Hugo and everyone...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Úna has little over a week left to live and wants to see Berlin for the first and last time. Her friend Liam accompanies her. As the city streets open up to them, so too do their pasts. Úna...
- Location(s): London, Germany, Moscow, Paris
- Genre(s): Espionage
- Era(s): late 1930s
Trust no one. Suspect everyone. It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy...
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
- Location(s): California, Alaska, Colorado, Washington State
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
The second, highly anticipated novel from Carnegie-shortlisted author Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock. Come on a journey across the rural American West . . . Meet the teenagers who live in the small towns across these states, separated by distance, but whose...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
DI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn’t have. She’s been clawing her way back from a demotion ever since. Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics...
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