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The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies, novel set in Ceylon. (Listen to an extract of THE TEA PLANTER’S WIFE read by Avita Jay) There is good reason why The Tea Planter’s Wife has been no.1 on the Sunday...
The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts, novel set in Bombay. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, published 2003, is an iconic book, a cult classic that has become one of the go-to books to explore Bombay via fiction. A...
The Northern Hemisphere summer is over… and, according to a straw poll we ran over on Facebook recently, two novels have really caught the imagination of readers over these past few months. They are The Tea Planter’s Wife by...
Stasi Child by David Young – thriller set in East Berlin (… with excursions to other parts of East Germany). Stasi Child transports the reader back to the 1970s, when Berlin was East and West – divided by The Wall...
The Defenceless by Kati Hiekkapelto – thriller set in Finland (translated by David Hackston). The book justifiably won the award for Best Finnish Crime Novel 2014. The Defenceless is very much in the genre of the best Scandinavian noir… Contrasting detectives...
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