- Location(s): Thailand, Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Robert Grieve – pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher – decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new...
- Location(s): Ribeira, Oporto (Porto), United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
In Zimler’s dazzling tale, John Zarco Stewart is an impish child of bold inquisitiveness, the unwitting inheritor of a faith shrouded in 300 years of secrecy. Dark and bitter events put an end to his innocence and almost destroy...
- Location(s): Sumatra
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers’ tales concerning black-maned ape-men as Theodore Hull – octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps – entices him onto the trail of the Gugu. A tangle...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
TWO MEN… ONE MISSION… TO KILL THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART Bestselling author Howard Linskey’s fifteen year fascination with the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the holocaust, has produced a meticulously researched, historically accurate thriller...
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2003
On the eve of the American invasion of Saddam Husseins Iraq, an international cast of schemers, spies, clergy, and scientists race to claim the greatest prize the world has ever seen. American archaeologist Molly ODwyer has unearthed a long-lost burial mound...
- Location(s): Sicily, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Medieval, Viking
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A yarn fit for a Norse saga. Full of action, poetry and heart; a thrilling voyage through the vibrant world of the twelfth century.” Matthew Harffy 1151: The Whale Road. Doomed to exile in Sicily, warrior poet Skarfr...
- Location(s): Tajikistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): post collapse of Soviet Union
The 1998 winner of the Anti-Booker Prize, Hurramabad describes the bloody national strife and the eviction of Russians from Tadjikistan following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The title is the name of a mythical city of joy and...
- Location(s): US Virgin Islands
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child. Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and 12-year-old Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She’s hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse – by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals – propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumours and suspicions...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this sweeping debut, Asha Bromfield takes readers to the heart of Jamaica, and into the soul of a girl coming to terms with her family, and herself, set against the backdrop of a hurricane. Tilla has spent her...
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