- Location(s): Helsinki, Trieste
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Post WW2
After a badly wounded sailor with amnesia is discovered washed up on the quay in Trieste after the Second World War, he’s taken back to Helsinki by a Finnish doctor in an attempt to rebuild his identity. Together they...
- Location(s): Forks, La Push, Seattle
- Genre(s): Romance, Science Fiction/Future, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. ‘Shoot,’ I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone. She has been left everything. But she’s also inherited her mother’s bad name. A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past....
Nightmare in Bangkok: The Incredible True Account of Survival
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Andy Botts began his criminal activities as a young ‘car banger’ in his native Hawaii before graduating to drug-dealing and trafficking. After a number of successful and highly lucrative drug runs to Bangkok and Bali (though not without some...
- Location(s): Australia, The Outback
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Written in spare yet sensuous prose, Nights in the Asylum is the story of three people seeking shelter: it is also a story of home, of belonging, of leaving one home and trying to make another, where-ever and how-ever...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2010s
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE ***‘Tense, lyrical, intelligent’ – The Big Issue*** ***A heart-wrenching human story – Saga*** Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the...
- Location(s): Devon, Portugal
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Charlotte Pascoe returns to Devon to work with her father in the family boatyard, she is horrified to discover that he is about to sell the site to Raphael da Silva, a property developer. Unable to pursue her...
No-One is here except all of us
- Location(s): Romania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 onwards
The novel opens with a brief poetic prelude voiced by a woman cradling an infant in her arms: “It began in 1939, at the northern edge of Romania, on a small peninsula cupped by a muddy river. The days...
- Location(s): Scarborough
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
A Regency romance. When Marianne Noble, a lady’s companion, visits the fashionable northern spa of Scarborough with her employer, she meets a man who attracts her instantly. However, a lady only just the right side of thirty with no...
- Location(s): Shropshire
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th Century
A group of children – similar feel to the Famous Five but greater age range – set up camp on Nordy Bank. Unsettling developments morph the book into darker fantasy but returns to the average experiences that any children...
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