- Location(s): Kyiv
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
On Sunday 22nd June 1941 at 03.05, three-and-a-half million Axis troops burst into the Soviet Union along a 1,800-mile front to launch Operation Barbarossa. The southern thrust of the attack was aimed at the Caucuses and the oil fields...
- Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th century
A visually-stunning account of the extraordinary costumes of the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. This book is unique on two counts. First, never before has a book of the costumes of the nomadic peoples of Central Asia been published...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other’s life, revealing everything…from the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent. After...
- Location(s): Equatorial Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
La Bastarda is the story of the orphaned teen Okomo. Forbidden from seeking out her father, she enlists the help of other village outcasts: her gay uncle and a gang of mysterious girls revelling in their so-called indecency. Drawn...
- Location(s): Lucerne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
La Cucina combines the sensuous pleasures of love and food, simmering in the heat of a Sicilian kitchen. Rose Fiore is a solitary middle-aged librarian who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In La Frontera, Sam Hawken illuminates the darkest sides of the illegal migration issue, the cost in human life and dignity for the border crossers and the thin line of defenders who stand against the tide on the American...
- Location(s): Arizona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s-1960s
Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s beyond the fizzled out end of Buckeye Road – beyond where asphalt turns to dirt after Buckeye Road has left Phoenix – La Maravilla is a novel of the displaced fringes...
- Location(s): Genoa
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 21st century
A writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, centring on the stories of migration and immigration, legal and illegal, telling the story of modern Europe. Part migrant story, part perverse...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1560
Something sinister lurks in Pitti Palace. Despite having spent eight years as companion to her cousins, Ana Geovani still questions her role and place in the Medici household. This uncertainty compounds and alarms as her cousin’s marriage approaches and...
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