- Location(s): West Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of the ebook bestseller, The Bookshop Ladies, comes a brand new novel guaranteed to pull at your heartstrings as three women, all with secrets waiting to be uncovered, meet on a beautiful island off the Irish...
The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanna
- Location(s): Mali, Guadeloupe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow...
- Location(s): Iraq, London, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Era(s): Years BC to modern
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Subtitled “a wildly distorted account” it is pretty much that: an oblique, poignant, entertaining and rather candid look at the city. Using his prize-winning novelist’s eye for telling detail, and the objectivity of the relative outsider (Carey has spent...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He’s a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really...
- Location(s): England, Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1978 - 1998
When Funke’s mother dies in an accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, sensible Funke strives to fit in, determined to become one of them....
- Location(s): Queensland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A warm, captivating and irresistible story of love, family, secrets and finding your place in the world. For readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton. The Sunday train which snaked into Noah Vale that verdant, midwinter afternoon brought with...
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Both have attempted pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the...
- Location(s): Cambridge, Dulwich
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the world’s last wildernesses with blistering authenticity. Frieda is a primatologist, sensitive and solitary, until a violent attack...
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