- Location(s): North Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown...
- Location(s): Daraya
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
‘This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.’ Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012...
The Book of Bradford (A City In Short Fiction)
- Location(s): Bradford
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
In the year 1905, infamous occultist Aleister Crowley gets more than he bargained for on a passing visit to Bradford… A successful businessman, returning to his native city, suddenly finds himself overwhelmed by a yearning for his youth… A single-mother despairs...
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of...
The Book of Jakarta (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young woman takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover that the destination she is hurtling towards is now entirely submerged… A group of elderly women visit a famous amusement park for one last...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson. When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century
London 1666. Young Agnes Wilmore arrives in the bustling city from the small of Castle Combe to pursue her dreams. Robert Hubert, a romantic sociopath, takes advantage of the girl on her first night in town, and from that...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The girl was beautiful, even in death. Her skin was translucent beneath the sliver of moonlight peeking through the bare branches of the surrounding pines, and her chestnut hair had tumbled around her pale shoulders. Around her, smoke twisted...
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Saunas, love and a ladleful of murder… A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered … in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death?...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemoporary
A boy wakes up on a train to Edinburgh.He is shocked to discover that no idea who he is or how he came to be on the train – and once off it, he finds himself immersed in the...
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