- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means...
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
- Location(s): Liège, Paris
- Genre(s): Mystery, Novella
- Era(s): 20th Century
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): late 1970s onwards
Anh Do nearly didn’t make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing – not murderous pirates, nor the imminent...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Nine-year-old Kati has always lived with her grandparents in the house by the river. Every day she goes to school, brings offerings to the monks, and plays with Tong, the abbot’s nephew. She is happy enough, but something —...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Henk van der Pol is a 30-year-term policeman, a few months off retirement. When he finds a woman’s body in Amsterdam Harbour, his detective instincts take over, even though it’s not his jurisdiction. Warned off investigating the case, Henk soon realises...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Budd Schulberg’s celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication more than fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson...
- Location(s): Surry Hills
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Ruth Park’s classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia’s greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeems den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 19th Century
An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? When the letters from an Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In...
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