- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
There are two types of people in the world: those who can only remember yesterday, and those who can also recall the day before. You have just one lifeline to the past: your diary. Each night, you write down...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is the true story of one girls escape from the rat race to explore a variety of ways of deepening her interest in yoga. She travels to India and goes from Ashram to Ashram, Guru to Guru, Yoga...
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the morning of Lily’s twenty-fifth birthday, it’s time to open the very last letter written to her by her beloved mother, who died when she was eight. Learning more about the first and only real love of her...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1901 & 2010
South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 1960s
A family is torn apart by their dream of a better future in the West. A true story narrated through the eyes of a child. West Germany, early 1960s: A little girl arrives with her parents from East Germany...
- Location(s): Kielder, London, The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Kate, is mourning her Father’s death. She agrees to an identity exchange, seemingly as part of a PhD study, and another girl moves to Kielder in Northumberland. Beware Anna, is all that can be said!
- Location(s): Zanzibar
- Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
- Era(s): 1998
The books is set against the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Tanzania by Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaida network. It is ostensibly a political thriller-cum-romantic adventure yarn. An ageing maverick CIA agent, Jack Quiller, a motorcycling, marine biologist,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
I’m a street prostitute. Not a call girl or anything. No, a real street whore, with stiletto heels and menthol cigarettes. Narrator Nanou gives a detailed account of her day, from the moment she wakes up with a foul...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1830s
The story of planters and slaves. A vivid portrayal of Jamaican slave society, charting daily lives right up to Freedom and a denouement of shocking proportions.
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