- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
- Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s onward
The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.
- Location(s): Rye
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fear blisters through this town like a fever… When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
6 July 2005. Great Britain has just been announced as the next host of the Olympics. The euphoric crowds pour forth from Trafalgar Square into the waiting bars and restaurants of Soho. Dreams, drugs, debauchery… Soho is London’s red...
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. Aged 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): World War Two
June 1940: Berlin is being bombed. Clara Vine is an Anglo-German woman in a country that hates England. The Propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, decides that Clara should adopt a new role as his spy, and so Clara must go...
- Location(s): Washington DC, West Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1969
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided...
- Location(s): The Solomon Islands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century
Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson – who spent several years in the South Pacific – here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall,...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Somebody’s Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes more and more intrigued...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead?and keep it together?in New York City. It’s January 1995, and...
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