- Location(s): England
- Era(s): 1910s (Edwardian England)
In Howard’s End, E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups–a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man...
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
A realistic tale in the best tradition of the novels of social protest of Zola, Dostoevsky, Jose Eustasio Rivera, and the Mexican novels of the Revolution, The Villagers (Huasipungo) shocked and horrified its readers, and brought its author mingled censure and...
- Location(s): North York Moors
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Be careful what you wish for … Holly Grey joined the woman’s group to keep her friend out of trouble – and now she’s knee-deep in hassle, in the form of apocalyptic weather, armed men, midwifery – and a...
- Location(s): Victoria BC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000
An abducted sex worker. A murdered stranger. Can a private investigator connect the dots and bring down a brutal gang? Vancouver, British Columbia. Charity Deacon knows her headstrong ways sometimes land her in trouble. But when the inexperienced PI...
Hum If You Don’t Know The Words
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation, but worlds apart, Beauty, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend’s corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of...
Human Landscapes from My Country
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century / WW2
Written during the Second World War while Hikmet was serving a thirteen-year sentence as a political prisoner, his verse-novel uses cinematic techniques to tell the story of the emergence of secular, modern Turkey by focusing on the always-entertaining stories...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
From the Booker Prizewinning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first...
- Location(s): Chile
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pride and disgrace. Nostalgia and revenge. Tenderness and seduction. From the dusty backstreets of Santiago and the sun-baked alleyways of impoverished fishing villages to the dark stairwells of urban apartment blocks, Paulina Flores paints an intimate picture of a...
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