- Location(s): Mars
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): 2196
A girl, trapped between two clashing worlds, must make sense of the past and face the future. The first novel from the Hugo Award-winning author of ‘Folding Bejing’, Hao Jingfang, translated by the Hugo Award-winning translator of The Three-Body...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there’s knife-wielding Marta, who...
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Fiction
A Peace Corps volunteer has gone missing in Bulgaria and everyone assumes he is dead, everyone except his grandfather, who refuses to give up hope. Retired literature professor Simon Matthews launches a desperate search only to be lured into...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in Marseilles, this is the story of Vanda, a beautiful woman in her thirties, arms covered in tats, skin so dark that some take her for a North African. Devoted to her six-year-old son Now, they live in...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1720-1930
The fourth and final book in the Herries Chronicles. The fourth and final volume of the Herries Chronicles, described as ‘incomparably the best’ in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of ‘effortless brilliance’ (Observer) which starts with the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Vanished is the brilliant new missing persons case in the David Raker series by Tim Weaver. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Mystery, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
With her son, Christian Browning, Daphne du Maurier, who lived in Cornwall for most of her life and used her knowledge of the county in her novels “Rebecca”, “Frenchman’s Creek” and “Jamaica Inn”, chronicles all aspects of this part...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
No. 1 in Detective Josie Quinn series When Isabelle Coleman, a blonde, beautiful young girl goes missing, everyone from the small town of Denton joins the search. They can find no trace of the town’s darling, but Detective Josie...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Mary McCarthy’s VENICE OBSERVED is not really a history, nor is it a guidebook – it is the reflections of a young woman in 1950s Venice who enjoys the art and architecture of this wonderful city.
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