- Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...
Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 - post WW2
World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes....
- Location(s): Europe, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Hong Kong is teetering on the edge of anarchy. Violent street battles are raging between riot police and mobs demanding democracy. Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. He’s retired, but it was purely involuntary. It seems his...
Monkeys on the Road: One family’s vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life
- Location(s): Central America, Mexico, Peru, South America
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): contemporary
A family road trip adventure from California to Argentina, finishing up just a few months ago in mid-2021! “Monkeys on the Road is primarily a heart-warming family travel memoir full of nail-biting adventures, but also weaves in educational snippets...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), Harrow, Udupi
- Genre(s): Fiction
Exiled from her family in India for more than a decade, Shirin and her husband lead a comfortable but empty life in London. Memories of her childhood – exotic fragrances, colours, stifling heat and tropical storms – fill Shirin...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and...
- Location(s): Delhi, Manipur, Nagaland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): present day
A girl from north-east India is murdered in Delhi. The main suspect is her ‘Indian’ boyfriend, but there isn’t enough evidence to prove his guilt. Amid a growing outcry about police neglect and racial injustice, detective Arjun Arora reluctantly...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife’s death, he hopes to escape his gnawing loss amid the lush landscape of his increasingly war-torn country. But as he sinks into life in this beautiful,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Mr Chicken has left the safe world of Harriet’s story and sets off on a global adventure. He’s visiting Paris and, like a good tourist, he’s doing all the famous sites, accompanied by his friend, Yvette. But it’s not...
Please wait...
