If Shirley Jackson wrote The Shining, it might look like this "deliciously unsettling"* horror novel from the acclaimed author of Baby Teeth: A mother must protect her family from the unnatural forces threatening their new and...
Country life
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Author:Stage, ZojeSummary: - Author:Massey, BrandonSummary:
Andrew Wilson has it all: a great house, a great job as a mystery writer, and all the money he can handle. But he's missing one thing: someone to share it all with. One day while writing at a small Georgia coffee shop, he meets Mika...
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Author:Harness, KypSummary:Wigford is a small town in rural Southwestern Ontario, home to a cast of recurring characters: Buzz, a drunk-driving father of two; his wife, who should have married Bert Walmsley instead; Happy Henry, a devout, socially inept apostle...
- Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:
This collection of Thomas Hardy's stories include storie stories of witchcraft, smuggling, mystery, humour and heartache.
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Author:Walker, MelissaSummary:Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through 124 letters dated 1853 to 1865. The...
- Author:Fuller, ClaireSummary:
From bestselling author Claire Fuller comes a portrait of life on the fringes of society, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What...
- Author:Davis, M. E. M.Summary:
Under the sprawling branches of the ancient man-fig tree in the town square, the gossiby men of Thornham relax and spin colorful yarns for each other's amusements. There, reputations are established or sullied, and local rumors of all...
- Author:SHANNON, RobSummary:
The advent of the town's Power House not only supplied electricity, but, wonder of wonders, ICE! Wheat farming, sheep mustering, learning to fly and coping with city ways are all recounted. Most striking of all is the theme of one...
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Author:Hamilton, VirginiaSummary:Eleven-year-old Valena lives both in the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to her mother's tales of her family's proud history.
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Author:Grahame, KennethSummary:A charming mole and an impulsive toad get into trouble in the English countryside. Adventures include stealing a car, escaping from prison and running into a god.
- Author:Birch, TonySummary:
Australia, 1960s. For thirteen years Odette raised her fair-skinned granddaughter Sissy without drawing notice from the authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. But the arrival of a new policeman with...
- Author:Kelsall, LéonieSummary:
An entrancing new rural romance from the bestselling author of The Farm at Peppertree Crossing. Three aching hearts, a ramshackle country pub and a tangled web of secrets. PR executive Gabrielle Moreau knows she has an easy life, but...
- Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:
The Seddon Street gang are back. School is closed and Denny, Polly, Bob, Pete and Joe have been packed off to Uncle Ted's farm. There's plenty to do riding, spying and exploring. As they poke their noses where they're not...
- Author:Hayes-McCoy, FelicitySummary:
To cheer up her recently widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald, visiting from Canada, persuades Lissbeg Library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the US town of Resolve. But when the club...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
Albert re-imagines Beatrix Potter wearing her sleuthing cap as the village of Sawrey lies buried beneath a blanket of Christmas snow. While she and her animal friends investigate a puzzling death, Miss Potter wonders if she can...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter. But has the culprit left clues Miss Potter can decipher...
- Author:McDonald, FleurSummary:
A riveting new novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback. 1980: Rose and Ian Kelly arrive in the small South Australian town of Barker for supplies, before driving a further couple of hundred kilometres to begin...
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Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:A tragedy set in the barren land of Edgon Heath. Our heroine, Eustacia, is proud, passionate, cruel, fickle, avaricious, and desperate. She burns every life she touches, never able to find the mad love and exotic world she dreams of....
- Author:Nesbit, E.Summary:
The story of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis and their life in the country has never been out of print since it was first published in 1906. Charming, sentimental and unforgettable, the novel's enduring appeal lives on in this BBC radio...
- Author:Endicott, MarinaSummary:
A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows. When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new...
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