Beautiful Joe was a dog from the town of Meaford, Ontario, whose story inspired the bestselling 1893 novel Beautiful Joe, which contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty.
The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features an elderly Leatherstocking, Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple of the fictional Templeton, New York.
The close-knit community of a Yorkshire village is rocked when local secrets are revealed in Date with Mystery, the third cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series.
The first book in the legendary Tarzan series tells the story of John Clayton, born in the coastal jungles of Africa to a marooned couple from England, adopted as an infant by apes after they die, then raised in ignorance of his human heritage.
The Sunday Times Bestseller'The Lamplighters is a whodunnit, horror novel, ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one' - The GuardianCornwall, 1972.
Each year of their long marriage, Walt and Millie have spent a month apart, as Walt heads out to hunt bear and moose in the pristine Alaskan wilderness, and Millie takes to the concert stage to perform.
Tarzan's plantation home in British East Africa is destroyed by invading German troops while he is away, killing everyone at his plantation including Jane.
A masterclass in slow-burn tension, Burial of Ghosts is a haunting standalone mystery from Ann Cleeves, author and creator of the Shetland, Vera Stanhope and Two Rivers series.
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.
'A powerful, vital commentary on empire, race, money, women and power'Hannah Kaner, Sunday Times bestselling author of Godkiller'Absorbing and thoughtful.
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town.
