Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk-it is part of being a moral adult.” -Susan Sontag In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean...
- Location(s): Danakil, Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Why would a man escape from prison the day before he’s due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1952-2007
Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Present
Roz and Jamie have moved to leafy Suffolk from London in search of a quiet life so it is a surprise to find that the village is embarking on its riotous annual drag competition. Fuelled by large quantities of...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his...
- Location(s): Prespes Region
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 2000s
In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia found themselves disillusioned with city life. Overwhelmed by long commutes, they stumbled upon a book about Prespa, Greece – a remote corner of Europe filled with stone villages,...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Modern
An absorbing and often hilarious account of the author’s 12 years as closeted cabin crew for British Airways. It’s a story of love, creativity and acceptance, the transformative power of lesbian love and more. Told with the wit and...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): post contemporary
The novel is set just a little in the future when the Far Right has gained ascendancy and skinheads rule the street. A Lebanese boy is kidnapped.
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend...
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