The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. Uganda chose the path...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Meet Hatem el-Shenawi, a Muslim TV preacher who has won fame and fortune through his show delivering Islam to the masses. Affable, sharp-witted, and well-connected to the government and business elite of Cairo, Shenawi seems at the top of...
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The hunter becomes the hunted. Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday continues his quest to uncover the mysterious secrets of the ancient Templar Order, an organization renowned for its incredible wealth and hidden power. He is swept into an...
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte...
- Location(s): Northampton
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Today
Bishop Nigel smiled at me. ‘Holy water doesn’t harm vampires. Which is just as well, as it would make it impossible to baptise them.’ When I was asked by a dragon to give him the last rites, I never...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how long you hold on to them . . . When Gracie Burton stumbles upon an advertisement for a week-long cookery course in the heart of the Tuscan countryside,she cannot resist,...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Who loves Mr Nishino? Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino’s true love. Bereaved Shiori is tempted by his unscrupulous advances. His colleague Manami should know better. His conquest Reiko treasures her independence above all else. Friends Tama and...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant’ of the title, and her dissolute,...
- Location(s): Alaska, Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids:...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century and 2000s
Jane Johnson’s The Tenth Gift is an wonderfully escapist page-turner set in seventeenth century Cornwall and Morocco,based on spine-tinglingly shocking historical fact, with a romantic hidden love story at its heart. His parting gift to her was a new...
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