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Internment

Internment
  • Author(s): Samira Ahmed
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Future

Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying ‘fifteen minutes in the future’ United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-Americans along with her parents. With the help of newly-made friends also trapped...

Interpretations of Love

Interpretations of Love
  • Author(s): Jane Campbell
  • Location(s): England, Liverpool, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Stretching from war-torn 1940’s Liverpool to Oxford at the end of the century, this story explores the emotional landscape of the time and the impact tiny moments of betrayal can have on our relationships in the years that follow....

Interpreter of Maladies

Interpreter of Maladies
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): West Bengal, Boston
  • Era(s): Modern

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives...

Intimacies

Intimacies
  • Author(s): Katie Kitamura
  • Location(s): The Hague (Den Haag)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She’s drawn into simmering personal...

INTO AFRICA with 3 kids, 13 crates and a husband

INTO AFRICA with 3 kids, 13 crates and a husband
  • Author(s): Ann Patras
  • Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980

A young family moved from England to Zambia in 1980 and with no ‘www’ for research in those days, had no idea what to expect. With encounters ranging from lizards to lions, servants to shopping shortages, and cockroaches to...

Into Eden

Into Eden
  • Author(s): Cate Frances
  • Location(s): Grand Canyon, Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present Day

Finding life, the universe and everything at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. This is a fabulous travel memoir of a journey to the Grand Canyon. Cate Frances joins a group to undertake a charity trek, this tightly knit...

Into The Burning Dawn

Into The Burning Dawn
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940 - 1943

Twenty-one-year-old Imogen Fitzgerald was raised in an English orphanage and never knew her parents. So when World War Two breaks out, she refuses to leave the life she’s worked so hard to build for herself, teaching English to young...

Into the Crocodile Nest: A Journey Inside New Guinea

Into the Crocodile Nest: A Journey Inside New Guinea
  • Author(s): Benedict Allen
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies of the Sepik tribe, whose totemic god is the...

Into the Distance

Into the Distance
  • Author(s): Brenda Mackenzie
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

This story is based on actual events during 1900. Leonie Grant, a twenty one year old orphan dreams of a new start and a career as a photographer in Australia. She travels on board the SS Britannic with her...

Into the Fire

Into the Fire
  • Author(s): Rachael Blok
  • Location(s): St Albans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eleven guests. Three nights. One murderer. In a stately mansion in the Hertfordshire countryside, sisters Lois and Ebba throw a launch party for their new venture: Archipelago, a virtual reality game. In attendance are their celebrity investors including a...

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