- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s and earlier
Anna has returned from visiting her mother. Restless and unable to sleep, she wanders through her parents’ house, revisiting the scenes of her childhood. In a cupboard drawer, folded and pushed away from sight, she finds a sepia photograph...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers...
- Location(s): New Mexico, Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s (Germany), 1945 (USA)
“Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
She’s looking for writing inspiration, but she may just find Mr Right… Laura Spalding has life all worked out: a flourishing writing career, a lovely home, a cute dog, and a handsome boyfriend Angus. Then, plot twist, Angus walks...
- Location(s): South London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR JHALAK PRIZE 2019 Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After her former band shot to superstardom without her, Claire reluctantly agrees to a gig as a playgroup musician for overprivileged infants on New York’s Park Avenue. Claire is surprised to discover that she is smitten with her new...
Happy as Larry: A New York Story of Cults, Crushes and Quaaludes
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1970s
After her beloved dad suddenly dies, teenage Saskia gets a crash course in growing up in after-hours New York. Her downwardly mobile family move from Gramercy Park to the seedy Upper West Side. Her mom becomes increasingly nihilistic and...










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