- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2018
Meredith Maggs hasn’t left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn’t alone. She has her cat, Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There’s her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favourite recipes,...
Message from an Unknown Mother
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
New York. 1868. Irish Beatrice is a “hot-corn Girl”, selling corn on the cob to passers-by and picking their pockets. German Georg, arriving in Manhattan on the run from a scandal – or perhaps a crime – back in...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport,...
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
- Location(s): North Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Puzzle
- Era(s): Contemporary
Includes a Cluefinder where you can check the clues you spotted – and missed – along the way. Can you find the clues and solve the murder first? Six people with links to the world of crime writing have...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A book for GOLF enthusiasts set in/around Boston: Missing Links recounts the tale of a coterie of golfing friends who ply their hobby at Ponkoquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli. An 18-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s / present day
She’s chosen her own future. Madras, India: The orphaned girls of St Ursula’s convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with languages, she’s taken on as governess for the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1780s
22 October 1789: I shall never forget that day. I shall never forget the decision I made. I was seventeen and so ill prepared for life that I hardly knew how to dress myself, let alone how to board...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporaryy
Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy property, and start families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
There is humour and satire in this story, one little boy growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 80s. Superstition, mindless violence, politics – a background to the country today brought to life in a very readable...
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