The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu, short stories with cats set mainly in Tokyo. Translated by Jesse Kirkwood Tokyo residents can hire a cat for three days from a specialist Tokyo pet shop and the feline arrives with...
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult, Novel set in Elizabethan LONDON and contemporary New York. “..to be successful as a woman, one would have to be invisible..” (Mary Sidney). That is this story in a nutshell. First off,...
And the Stones Cry Out by Clara DuPont-Monod, an immersive novel set in the CEVENNES, France. Translated by Ben Faccini This novel is a deep and thought-provoking portrayal of the psychological impacts of growing up with a profoundly disabled sibling...
TalkingLocationWith… Cynthia Reeves. A Polar Paradox: Witnessing the Sublime as a Destructive Force by Cynthia Reeves, author of The Last Whaler Over the past seven years, I’ve spent five months living on Svalbard, an archipelago located between the northern coast...
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier, novel spanning 500 years set on Murano / Venice. #audiobook – beautifully narrated by Juliet Aubrey. This is such a uniquely structured novel, offering a potted overview of the history of Venice, highlighting Murano....
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