- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest...
- Location(s): Liverpool, Oxford
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
A spell-binding mystery, packed with suspense… During the investigation into the death of a woman on a Liverpool housing estate, DI Tara Grogan encounters Callum, a local recluse who claims to have information. But he won’t help her unless...
- Location(s): Dresden
- Genre(s): Fiction, Children
- Era(s): WW2
Dresden, 1945. Elizabeth and Karli’s mother works at the zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals – including the elephants – must be shot before...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
Who hasn’t fantasized about leaving their job, saying goodbye to the rat race and escaping to some exotic destination in search of sun, sand, and a different way of life? Ann Vanderhoof and her husband did just that. In...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 21st century
From bestselling author of the Shatter Me series and the National Book Award-nominated A Very Large Expanse of Sea, Tahereh Mafi, comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating dual-identity as a Muslim teenager in America, and reclaiming...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A body from an old war and a missing girl bring retired mercenary Sonja Kurtz home to Africa’s deadly Skeleton Coast. Sonja Kurtz – former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary – is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rose Vernon is headed to a quiet Cornish village – to find the man who saved her life. For Rose, every day is a gift. She narrowly survived a life-threatening illness and owes everything to her anonymous donor. Determined to...
- Location(s): Northern France
- Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
- Era(s): 1990s
Katie Jones is twenty-one and embarking on her year abroad, working as a groom for a French family. She can’t wait to get started, but things never seem to go smoothly for Katie. Juggling the challenges of a foreign...
- Location(s): Seville
- Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary /1990s
Katie Jones had always liked horses, dogs and men. In that order. Until, that is, Dan de Loubens had come along while she was working as a groom in France in her twenties and changed everything. But time moves...
An Englishman in New York: The Memoirs of John Miskin Prior 1948-49
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
Have you ever wanted a first-hand glimpse into post-war 1940s New York? When 21-year-old John Miskin Prior travelled by ship to New York in 1948, he had no idea he was going to meet and dine with the Roosevelts...
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