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Pizza Girl

Pizza Girl
  • Author(s): Jean Kyoung Frazier
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riotously funny yet difficult story of two women in opposite life stages but similar mental states, Pizza Girlfollows an 18-year-old pregnant protagonist floundering as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles. She encounters Jenny, a middle-aged stay-at-home...

Place of Reeds

Place of Reeds
  • Author(s): Caitlin Davies
  • Location(s): Botswana, Maun
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1990s

24-year-old Caitlin Davies was studying in America when she met and fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana, Caitlin joined him in Maun, the ‘Place of Reeds’, and the two began...

Plaint for Provence

Plaint for Provence
  • Author(s): Jean Gill
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 12th century

Shortlisted for the Chaucer Awards, FINALIST in The Wishing Shelf Awards, HNS EDitor’s Choice 1152: Les-Baux-de-Provence ‘By far the best historical fiction I have read this year! – Rabia Tanveer, December 2015, for Readers’ Favorite Summoned to the court...

Plane Dead

Plane Dead
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A flight from London to Dublin arrives carrying an unusual cargo – a passenger stone-cold dead in his seat. Sergeant Fiona Moore immediately suspects foul play and forensics confirm a lethal cocktail of drugs was in the man’s system....

Play It as It Lays

Play It as It Lays
  • Author(s): Joan Didion
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. ‘Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some...

Play The Red Queen

Play The Red Queen
  • Author(s): Juris Jurjevics
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not...

Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein
  • Author(s): Jennifer Roy, Ali Fadhil (Afterword)
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1991

Video game villains and real-life dictators dominate daily life for eleven-year-old Ali Ali Fadhil has very simple likes and dislikes. It is 1991 in Iraq and all Ali wants to do is read his comics and play football and...

Playing for Pizza

Playing for Pizza
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Parma
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Please Do Not Disturb

Please Do Not Disturb
  • Author(s): Robert Glancy
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The funny, disturbing and deeply affecting new book by the acclaimed author of Terms & Conditions Charlie, a curious boy with a dangerous dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel, as the African nation of Bwalo...

Please Don’t Ask For Extra Glasses

Please Don’t Ask For Extra Glasses
  • Author(s): Barb Taub, Janine Smith (photos), Jayalakshmi Ayyer (photos)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): current

Guess what India? We’re baaack! After our travel adventures the year before in which none of us technically died — although there were times it seemed like an attractive option — my two long-suffering travel companions, Jaya and Janine,...

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