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Postcards from Ladakh

Postcards from Ladakh
  • Author(s): Ajay Jain
  • Location(s): Ladakh
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): c. 2009

Ladakh, circa 2009 You never have a sense of déjà vu in Ladakh. No place looks the same again. No moment repeats itself here. There is always something new to discover about the land and its people. Birds and...

Postcards from No Man’s Land

Postcards from No Man’s Land
  • Author(s): Aidan Chambers
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

Two craftily interwoven stories, separated by 50 years in time, make upthis emotionally and intellectually challenging novel. Set in Holland, one story tells of the passionate love between a young Dutch woman and Jacob Todd, a wounded English soldier:...

Postcards from San Michele

Postcards from San Michele
  • Author(s): Alan Gorevan
  • Location(s): Dublin, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jennie Walsh has done her best to ignore her husband’s criminal activities. But when he murders two men, she can no longer turn a blind eye. She’s on holiday in Venice when a gangland war erupts back home –...

Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge
  • Author(s): Carrie Fisher
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope...

Postcards from Tokyo

Postcards from Tokyo
  • Author(s): Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

These six stories are all inspired by Tokyo, a magical place that writer Wendy Nelson Tokunaga has observed both first-hand and from afar. A Tokyo teenager obsessed with becoming an idol singer despite her mother’s trepidations. An American bar...

Potent Poison

Potent Poison
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The headmistress of High Fell Hall, an expensive boarding school for girls near Richmond, asks Dr Mills Sanderson to help two pupils with their studies over the summer. Her duties have hardly begun when one of the girls, Cecile...

Potiki

Potiki
  • Author(s): Patricia Grace
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A moving story of a Maori community’s fight for survival, from one of New Zealand’s most prominent and celebrated authors On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land and the sea, a small...

Power’s Garden

Power’s Garden
  • Author(s): Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War I

Tragedy and triumph unfurl when a devout Mormon family hires a head-strong young widow during trying economic times. Two families — one Texan, one Mormon — develop an embattled but gripping relationship in the Arizona desert, while WWI rages...

Practical Magic

Practical Magic
  • Author(s): Alice Hoffman
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them. All Gillian and Sally ever wanted...

Prague Fatale

Prague Fatale
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Prague
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Part of the epic series featuring Bernie Gunther. Summer of 194a in Berlin, Gunther is in persuit of killer. He meets a girl, who needs rescuing from a seeming rape-attack and they subsequently begin a relationship. He is relocated...

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