Category: Historical | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Category: Political
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller FIRE AND FURY, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. With FIRE AND FURY, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in SIEGE, he has written an equally essential and explosive bo ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The blazingly brilliant new novel from Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the international bestseller Eat Pray Love- a glittering coming-of-age epic stitched across the fabric of a lost New York It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machin ...Show more
Category: History | Reading Level: 2 Crime
A vital account of how sustainable farming can address urgent issues such as climate change and water scarcity, health and nutrition, land stewardship, renewables vs. the coal industry, as well as meaningful and fulfilling rural employment. And a call to arms. You know who is minding the farm - our ...Show more
Category: Crime
From 'one of the great American writers of our time' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) - a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake of Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Je ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back in laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him-and with the straitla ...Show more
Category: War | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of defence. A wave of suicides rolled across the country as thousands chose death-for themselves and their children-rather than face the defeat of the Third Reich and what they feared might follow. Drawing on ...Show more
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: Polly and Buster | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Is being best friends enough to save a whole town? Polly and Buster have always believed that witches and monsters can be friends, but it seems no-one else agrees. With the witches furious and the monsters in uproar, their whole town is heading for a war ... and yet no-one realises tha ...Show more
Category: Crime
While heading up the Russia Desk of the SIS, one of Kate Henderson's undercover operations reveals some alarming evidence. Evidence that a senior UK politician is a high level Russian mole. Determined to find out who it is, Kate must risk everything to get to the truth. Until a young woman is brutally m ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world - the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum's on a cruise. Tippy is in love with her uncle's old Nancy Drew ...Show more
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
As we got closer I could see behind the sandstone a curved concrete building: a purpose-built structure. But still no fence, no wire. Not a bar in sight. For this, I'd been told that morning, I should be grateful. This was a 'lifeline...a last chance'. That is what the judge said. Daniel is a sixteen-y ...Show more
