An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Leicester
- Location(s): Leicester
- Genre(s): Creative Writing
- Era(s): Vikings to Futuristic
How can you wring everything out of a city in a creative writing sense? Is it possible to write about a place and exhaust every avenue so that there is nothing left to write? Can you fill a book...
- Location(s): Isle of Mull, The Hebrides
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
She went looking for someone, but it wasn’t him. After a string of disappointments for chirpy city girl Autumn Elworthy, discovering her notoriously unstable mother has run off again is the last straw. When Autumn learns her mother’s last...
- Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
No sooner has Akyl Borubaev been reinstated as an Inspector in the Bishkek Murder Squad than he’s suspended for alleged serious crimes against the state. After an attempted assassination of a prominent minister goes spectacularly wrong, Akyl is a...
- 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...
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