Three Apples Fell from the Sky
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate....
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1942
When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith’s...
- Location(s): Belgium, Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War I
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Kathy Courage has never visited the famous Italian city of Florence before, so she’s thrilled when she and her boyfriend Neil are invited there for a wedding. Unfortunately, with Neil’s constant complaining and his teenage children in tow, it’s...
- Location(s): The Hague (Den Haag)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary.
A world of terrorism, murder and a love story set in a present day multicultural Europe. The three young women in the story come from very different backgrounds, and for them, life throws up added complications. What do you...
- Location(s): Mali
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Even if Trouble is staring you in the face, be good to people. Dance. When David and Asifa said yes to serving with the Peace Corps in Mali, little did they know they were stepping onto a rollercoaster that...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to...
- Location(s): The Thames
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th century
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a ‘T’. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie...
- Location(s): Ladakh
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modernn
‘Let’s go for a ride!’ This was the clarion call for Royal Enfield riders, but where should we go? Bharathi (the wife) – She Who Must Be Obeyed – sneers at our puny destination plans and orders us to...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after twenty years of absence to mourn his two friends- two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised “”the three musketeers.”” These young men signed...
