The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
- Location(s): Karachi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a ‘mythopoetic legacy’ of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....
- Location(s): Shiraz
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979 onwards
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Iranian Mullahs have offered a $4 million reward to the person who carries out their fatwa, the death sentence of the internationally acclaimed author Sara Santanda. A Danish daily newspaper has in cooperation with Danish PEN Centre invited her...
- Location(s): Berwick upon Tweed
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian and medieval
Set in 1899, the story is about Annie and her older brother, who go to work in the eerie Hexer Hall. Soon we find that Annie can travel in time – and she ends up in the frightening medieval...
- Location(s): Tennessee
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dark, southern gothic novel about small-town dreams, love and grief. Dill’s father is in jail for an unspeakable crime. Shunned by the neighbours in their small religious Tennessee town, Dill and his mother try to make ends meet....
- Location(s): Tangier
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Joining her mother for a holiday in the ancient port city of Tangier, American adventuress Jade del Cameron expects their trip will be far less dangerous than her safaris in East Africa. But soon after their introduction to a...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): English Civil War
After Marston Moor. After Naseby. War returns to the West Country. Book 5 in the bestselling Uncivil Wars series, featuring the adventures of Hollie Babbitt and his rebel rabble of Parliamentarian cavalry. Cornwall, 1646. Thomas Fairfax and the Army...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Even after the release of Nelson Mandela and the promise of free elections, extremist groups terrorized South Africa, bombing churches, opening fire in bars and restaurants. Nearly twenty-five years ago, as a young Captain, Vaughn de Vries finds himself...
- Location(s): New Zealand
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Marriage transplants Sarah thousands of miles from home; a failed love affair forces Phoebe to make drastic choices in a new environment; a sudden, shocking discovery brings Mrs Ellis to reconsider her life as an emigrant-The Settling Earth is...
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