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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Haunting, moving, beautifully written – and based by an extraordinary cast of characters who capture the diversity of modern Turkey. A masterpiece’ Peter Frankopan ‘In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila’s consciousness began to ebb, slowly and...

1794 The City Between the Bridges

1794 The City Between the Bridges
  • Author(s): Niklas Natt och Dag
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Historical, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1794

The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be just at home in the madhouse across the road. Ridden with guilt, he spends his nights writing down memories of his...

300 Days of Sun

300 Days of Sun
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Faro, Lisbon, The Algarve
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past where two...

500 Walks with Writers, Artists and Musicians

500 Walks with Writers, Artists and Musicians
  • Author(s): Kath Stathers (editor)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Literary Travel, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): N/A

Explore the diverse cultural and historical legacy of the world’s greatest writers, artists and composers on foot. This unique trans-continental culture trip around the world presents a series of inspiring walks, treks, and hikes that vary between easy one-hour strolls, half...

8.55 to Baghdad

8.55 to Baghdad
  • Author(s): Andrew Eames
  • Location(s): Europe, Iraq, Middle East
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie. Fascinated by the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he decided to retrace the...

A Bad Character

A Bad Character
  • Author(s): Deepti Kapoor
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

My boyfriend died when I was twenty-one. His body was left lying broken in the highway out of Delhi while the sun rose in the desert to the east. I wasn’t there, I never saw it. But plenty of...

A Blonde Bengali Wife

A Blonde Bengali Wife
  • Author(s): Anne Hamilton
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

They all said that Bangladesh would be an experience… For Anne Hamilton, a three-month winter programme of travel and “cultural exchange” in a country where the English language, fair hair, and a rice allergy are all extremely rare was...

A Body At The Tearooms (Kate Palmer #3)

A Body At The Tearooms (Kate Palmer #3)
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nurse Kate Palmer has only been living in Lower Tinworthy, a beautiful little village by the sparkling Cornish sea, for a short time but she’s already making a name for herself as the local Miss Marple. Although not everyone is keen...

A Brief Affair

A Brief Affair
  • Author(s): Margaret Leroy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second World War

The cups and saucers on the dresser begin to rattle faintly, as though a tremulous hand is holding them. The water in the washing-up bowl shivers all over its surface. There’s a distant droning, something at first more felt...

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • Author(s): Marlon James
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes...

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