- Location(s): Ireland, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1987 onwards
Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group...
- Location(s): Kenya, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 21st century
For years Yvonne has tried to keep her demons buried and focus on moving forward. But her guilt is always with her and weighs heavily on her heart. Kiama has had to grow up without a mother, and while...
- Location(s): Adelaide, Sydney
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1958 and contemporary
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and...
- Location(s): Africa, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th century
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader’s wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to...
- Location(s): The Basque Country
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Miren and Bittori have been best friends all their lives, growing up in the same small town in the north of Spain. With limited interest in politics, the terrorist threat posed by ETA seems to affect them little. When...
- Location(s): The Peloponnese
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Part 2 of the Peloponnese series continues the story of 2 journalists and their crazy dog living in the southern Peloponnese, Greece during the crisis. This is a travel memoir that looks at the challenges of modern Greece set...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1995
It is 1995 and Noa and Amir have decided to move in together. Noa is studying photography in Jerusalem and Amir is a psychology student in Tel Aviv, so they choose a tiny flat in a village in the...
- Location(s): Oklahoma
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with four other adults and a child. Working several jobs and never knowing if she could make the rent, she felt like she...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘A mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life’ Sally Rooney ‘Addictive, stylish and violently funny… An outstanding collection’ Kevin Barry From the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS – a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful...
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