- Location(s): Azerbaijan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The novel and short stories included in this book describe the problems inherent to modern Azerbaijani society such as alienation, loneliness, hopelessness, soullessness etc. against a background of sophisticated characters and events. The great, intellectual, path-defining writer of Azerbaijanian...
The Legend of the Wandering King
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): A long time ago
A prince with more power than heart … a poet who may be mad … and a carpet containing all of human history combine in this brilliant new fantasy by one of Spain’s brightest young writers. Walid was a...
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1967
In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Detective, Harry Hole has gone MIA from the Oslo Crime Squad, as he is still bearing the scars (both emotionally and physically) from the last case – The Snowman – and is `taking a break’ in Hong Kong, where...
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
The sixth title in Nicola Davies’ Heroes of the Wild series is a mountain adventure based on a real conservation project to protect Caucasian leopards. Malik loves exploring the mountains near his village in Armenia, and he’s never forgotten...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo’s adoption. To this day, Susan’s killer...
The Less than perfect legend of Donna Creosote
- Location(s): Huddersfield
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
“Donna Crick-Oakley walks on six inches of stories every day. She may live on the top floor of a tower block but she still pads her walls and floor with books to shut the real world further out. Or...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man – a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
The first thing Woodrow Cain sees when he steps off the train in New York City on February 9, 1942, is smoke from an ocean liner in flames in the harbor. It’s the Normandie, and word on the street...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1945
The Liberation is set in Italy in 1945 as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated country and Italy’s population fights to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate – her father is dead, her mother has...
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