- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Crime, Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
In order to escape his corrupt and evil deeds, Jim Foster moves from Eastbourne to the charming Cotswold village of Bridgeford-upon-Avon. Handsome, charismatic and wealthy, he catches the eye of several lonely ladies. Celia Bamford’s ill-judged attempt to seduce...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
She loves her husband. But she might love their house more . . . Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own....
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1989
Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after a miraculous change in fortune. As the narrator, along with his sister, his parents, and his uncle...
Ghetto Fights, The : Warsaw 1943-45
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Era(s): 1943-45
This remarkable memoir by Marek Edelman, member of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance five-person command team, tells first-hand of the struggle of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis in the spring of 1943. Features a new introduction by John Rose, author...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Gothic, Romance
Langlands House is haunted, but not by the ghost you think. Augusta McAndrew lives on a remote Scottish estate with her grandmother, Rose. For her own safety, she hides from outsiders, as she has done her entire life. Visitors...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 21st century
A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a white police officer, drawing connections with real-life history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. ALIVE Twelve-year-old Jerome doesn’t get into trouble. He goes to school. He does...
- Location(s): The Falkland Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Tensions between Siberia and Moscow are running high, but the sudden disappearance of leading top-tier Siberian politicians and oil executives sparks open outrage in the vast lands east of the Ural. Terrified that Siberia will sever their ties and...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, South London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s+1997
A powerful debut novel about family secrets and what it costs to belong, for fans of Brit Bennett and Clare Chambers. ‘An astounding debut … written with emotion and astuteness, this deserves to be on book prize lists’ PRIMA...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
August is Ghost Month in Taiwan-a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, commemorate ancestors, and avoid unlucky situations, large purchases, and bodies of water. Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a bustling...
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