- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ismeena Eliades has hit a life stalemate. She’s bored of her job as an administrative assistant in the stuffy corporate legal world, fed up of her dried-up love life, and tired of drinking away her thirties. And then there’s...
It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir
- Location(s): Jerusalem
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
A deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In August 2000 Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A...
It’s Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades–and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent...
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia’s most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipient of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan’s...
- Location(s): East Anglia, Ireland, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): October 2016 - June 2017
Five friends in their fifties find themselves dealing with unforeseen upheaval as they uncover long-hidden and devastating family secrets. Meanwhile, the world around them seems to be spinning out of control. This is a novel about friendship, kindness and...
- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): 1990s
“Am I giving the impression that I don’t like the Veneto? It’s not true. I love it. But like any place that’s become home I hate it too.” How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy –...
- Location(s): Bologna
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Hollywood comes to Bologna, La Dolce Vita turns sweet murder… A famous Hollywood director arrives in Bologna to remake a cult film and the city’s renown cinema archive decides to mark the occasion with a screening of the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 19th and 20th centuries
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor...
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country’s vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains....
- Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices...
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