Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): late 20th century
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Guilty by Definition is a love letter not only to language but to the city of Oxford, wrapped within an intriguing mystery of a missing woman and considering the emotional aftershocks of her disappearance on those left behind. She’d...
- Location(s): Hastings
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): present
Curiosity about a strangled lawyer leads police doctor Callie Hughes along a bumpy road to the truth When a lawyer is found dead in his home, the circumstances are indeed strange, if not wholly suspicious. An act of auto-eroticisation...
- Location(s): Gulf States
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert. After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Cli-fi
- Era(s): Modern
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta’s world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present
When the Deringer pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is stolen and ends up in the hands of a Russian military general, covert agent Blake Deco is tasked by the FBI to head to the Balkans to recover the historical...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for five years, but she still works alongside him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends her nights serving shots and watching, from behind the...
Gutsy Travels: Travelling the World With My Invisible Friend
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this inspiring book, Joanna shares her adventures to some of the most remote corners of the world while facing the added challenge of living with Crohn’s Disease. Her optimistic outlook shines throughout each chapter. Joanna’s travels include voluntary...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but many of Leo Tolstoy’s works remain obscure today. This short novel, published posthumously and recommended by Harold Bloom in his Western Canon,...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1771
In 1771, Robert Burns, future national poet and folk hero of Scotland, has big problems. 12-year-old Rab spends all of his time doing backbreaking work on his family’s farm instead of attending school, but when he finds a hag...
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