- Location(s): Rajasthan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband’s death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza’s only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she’s determined to make a name for...
Belas Rift: The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Volume 3
- Location(s): The Cotswolds, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Winchcombe
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Our young hero Stig and his female partner Meg chase the evil enemy’s leader Anet into a rift. This interdimensional portal brings them from their fantasyland through into a small village in 21st century England. Their mission is to...
- Location(s): India, Sussex
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century to early 1920s
Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father’s surprise birthday present – a tragedy that ends her childhood in India and precipitates a new life in Sussex with her...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Suspense
- Era(s): 1980a
Apartheid still rules in South Africa when Angela and Stephen take on a job as caretakers of a remote farm in the Midlands of Natal. Things don’t go quite as planned from the moment they arrive, and the young...
- Location(s): Kreuzberg, Neukölln
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do the...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence – both from outside the family and also, devastatingly,...
- Location(s): China, Bahrain, Idaho, Montenegro, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1930-2010
Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.
- Location(s): South London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It’s about a bus trip really, because it’s my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker...
Between the Woods and the Water
- Location(s): Europe, Hungary, Romania
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
this is the sequel to ‘A Time of Gifts’, and Fermor continues his walk through the length of 1930s Europe. Starting from where the previous book left off, at the border into Hungary, and on to “the Iron Gates”...
- Location(s): Somerset, Sussex
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 and 2022
Some secrets are better left buried… 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and...
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