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Kala

Kala
  • Author(s): Colin Walsh
  • Location(s): Kinlough
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They—Helen, Joe and Mush—were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of...

Kalakuta Republic

Kalakuta Republic
  • Author(s): Chris Abani
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): 1980s

This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria’s military regime in the late 1980s.

Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi

Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi
  • Author(s): Piers Moore Ede
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Piers Moore Ede first fell in love with Varanasi when he passed through it on his way to Nepal. In the decade that followed, it continued to exert its pull on him and so he returned there to live...

Kallocain

Kallocain
  • Author(s): Karin Boye, Gustaf Lannestock (translator), Richard B Vowles (introducer)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): the future

This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. Kall...

Kalmann

Kalmann
  • Author(s): Joachim B Schmidt, Jamie Lee Searle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Raufarhöfn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kalmann is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea ― to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns...

Kalyana

Kalyana
  • Author(s): Rajni Mala Khelawan
  • Location(s): Suva, Fiji
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965

Kalyana, an impressionable and plump five-year-old girl, lives in Suva, the capital city of the Fiji Islands. It is 1965: the country is under British rule, while a feminist revolution is sweeping both Great Britain and America. Kalyana lives...

Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone

Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone
  • Author(s): Kathleen Martin
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kathleen Martin spent several weeks in the tiny village of Kamakwie in the interior of Sierra Leone, where she worked with a Canadian medical team. Staying in the grounds of the community hospital, Kathleen had the opportunity to meet...

Kamouraska

Kamouraska
  • Author(s): Anne Hébert
  • Location(s): Kamouraska
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d’Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for...

Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari
  • Author(s): Hazel Manuel
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/Modern

When close friends and seasoned travellers, Rachel and Gina, take a trip to India, Rachel expects the usual round of sight-seeing and collecting experiences, but she is not prepared for the secret that Gina is harbouring. Interwoven with this...

Kapp to Cape – Never Look Back: Race to the End of the Earth

Kapp to Cape – Never Look Back: Race to the End of the Earth
  • Author(s): Reza Pakravan
  • Location(s): Africa, Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Steve and I clutched hands – his right in my left – and then we simultaneously pushed down with our feet. Cogs clicked, wheels turned, and we were on our way. We left Nordkapp within minutes. Cape Town was...

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