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Hit the road Jac!: Seven years, twenty countries, no plan

Hit the road Jac!: Seven years, twenty countries, no plan
  • Author(s): Jacqui Furneaux
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Read this and you’ll want to go on an adventure. Jacqui’s tale is not just obviously inspiring, but her story makes you think about the pleasures of nature and simplicity; about taking the time to just stand and breathe...

Holy Island

Holy Island
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave from his duties as a homicide detective. A few days before Christmas, his peace is shattered and he is thrust back...

Homage to Catolonia

Homage to Catolonia
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • Location(s): Catalonia, Ebro Valley
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Orwell’s book about how he joined the ranks of the anti fascists during the Civil War, in which he was actively involved.

Home Fire

Home Fire
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • Location(s): London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted...

Hot Stage

Hot Stage
  • Author(s): Anita Nair
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2012

When elderly Professor Mudgood, a well-known rationalist and fervent critic of right-wing forces in India, is found dead in his home in Bangalore by his daughter, Assistant Commissioner of Police Borei Gowda is quite certain that this is a...

Hotel Cartagena

Hotel Cartagena
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Cartagena
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages...

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
  • Author(s): Jamie Ford
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1942 to modern

1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during...

House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)

House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya’s epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series...

House of Orphans

House of Orphans
  • Author(s): Helen Dunmore
  • Location(s): Finland, Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland’s freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father...

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera
  • Author(s): Sharon Upp
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1910s

This is story of Diego Rivera’s first wife, Angeline Beloff, an artist from pre-revolutionary Russia and her relationship with him in, part set in Belle Époque Paris.

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