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High Low In-Between

High Low In-Between
  • Author(s): Imran Coovadia
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The violent death of her biologist husband forces Nafisa into a world of illegal organ transplants, bribery, and scientific and political controversy. With an acute sense of the disruptions of contemporary South Africa, and its keen feeling for love...

Hits Different

Hits Different
  • Author(s): Tasha Ghouri, Lizzie Huxley-Jones
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Disability, Coming of Age, Fiction, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cassie needs a change. She’s in a job she hates, dating a guy who couldn’t care less about her, and secretly dreaming of making her dance ambitions a reality. But that’s all they are, dreams. Because no way could...

Holding Out for a Hero

Holding Out for a Hero
  • Author(s): Victoria Van Tiem
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern; 1980s

Libby London fell in love with the eighties, came of age in the nineties, and now the twenty-first century is baffling her. Her New-York-City style is more, erm, vintage tragedy than retro babe and her penchant for All Things...

Hot Ice

Hot Ice
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Madagascar, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Romance

Doug Lord is on the run, gangster Dimitri is in hot persuit. On the run, Doug jumps into Whitney McAllister’s cab in NYC, and she joins him as a partner, an escape from her regimented life as an ice...

House of the Deaf

House of the Deaf
  • Author(s): LaMar Herrin
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Ben Williamson has lost a daughter in a Basque separatist bombing in Madrid. Ben struggles with all the questions about the violence of her untimely deathand he needs to understand why this happened. In his search for answers he...

Hox

Hox
  • Author(s): Annemarie Allan
  • Location(s): Appin, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

Faced with a cold Saturday afternoon stuck at the Institute for Animal Research, Robbie is angry and frustrated at yet another weekend ruined by his father’s job. Then a disturbing encounter in the animal house thrusts him into a...

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and...

I Think We Should Kill Other People

I Think We Should Kill Other People
  • Author(s): L M Chilton
  • Location(s): Norway, South East England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The nation watched them fall in love. Now someone’s watching them die. Hazel and Marc were paired together on revolutionary new reality TV show Love Synced, in which sophisticated AI matches hopeful lovers based on its perceptive algorithms. But...

Idol

Idol
  • Author(s): Louise O'Neill
  • Location(s): United States (USA), New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022 / turn of the 21th Century

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth.’ For Samantha Miller’s young fans – her ‘girls’ – she’s everything they want to be. She’s an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find...

In Ascension

In Ascension
  • Author(s): Martin MacInnes
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that was as profound and moving at every scale’ Karen Joy Fowler ‘An instant classic. Read it and feel awe and wonder’ Neel Mukherjee Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to...

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