- Location(s): Romney Marsh
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Current
David Booker returns to Romney Marsh on the south coast of England for a holiday. He is expecting to spend time helping his aunt and uncle pack up the stock of their second-hand bookshop in preparation for a happy...
Baikonur: Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
- Location(s): Kyzylorda
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first ever collection of photographs showing in detail the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s most important urban exploration site. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was created by the Soviets in the 1950s. It was from Baikonur in 1988 that...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century to the future
In the restless city of Bangkok, there is a house. Over the last two centuries, it has played host to longings and losses past, present, and future, and has witnessed lives shaped by upheaval, memory and the lure of...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): over time
Robert Hughes has been visiting Barcelona since the 1960s and he has written an epic tribute to a city he loves. He tells the story of the growth of this Mediterranean metropolis from its origins as a Roman colonial...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Bayan, the title, is Russian for the accordion, since the story is based on a hauntingly beautiful narration of the transition of life from the Soviet through the post-Soviet era in Ukraine. The main character, Ivan Nikolaevich, is a...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1917
It is 1917, and Korea is yet to be divided into north and south. With the threat of famine looming, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver’s courtesan school in cosmopolitan Pyongyang, an...
- Location(s): Hydra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagano
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Future
- Era(s): Future
This world is anything but ordinary, and it’s about to change forever… It’s our world, but decades into the future… An ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There...
- Location(s): Rajasthan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband’s death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza’s only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she’s determined to make a name for...
Belas Rift: The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Volume 3
- Location(s): The Cotswolds, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Winchcombe
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Our young hero Stig and his female partner Meg chase the evil enemy’s leader Anet into a rift. This interdimensional portal brings them from their fantasyland through into a small village in 21st century England. Their mission is to...