- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1993
From one of Canada’s brightest literary stars – a startling and beautiful novel about abandonment, poverty, and violence, as well as loyalty, love, and hope, as seen through the eyes of a young homeless boy. It is 1993 and...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
Ever since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu,...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 1950s
One morning in Singapore more than 50 years ago, a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Annie sets out to make a better life for herself in a mystical, timelessly beautiful Tuscan valley. Intrigued by Joe, her American neighbour and strangely drawn to the ancient cypress which protects her new home, she begins to stretch...
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
David Quammen’s book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message — a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural...
- Location(s): Paris, Royal Tunbridge Wells
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Opera gets sexy! American music mogul Teddy Wilson combines the beauty of opera with the marketability of pop and creates the pop-opera multinational singing group called “Bel Homme.” French for “Beautiful Man,” the four performers he chooses are much...
The Sons and Daughters of Toussaint
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1800s, present-day
A narrative that weaves together the history of Haiti with a present day story featuring the descendants of the legendary Haitian freedom fighter Toussaint and their struggle to realize their ancestor’s dream.
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
A key work in the German ‘Sturm und Drang’ movement, Johann Goethe’s autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This Penguin...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Creative Writing
- Era(s): Not specified
In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres—literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction—discover imagery and inspiration in the places they love. Lappin...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2006
This new release is a spirited yet humble account of one man’s scientific career and personal journey to save the endangered rhinoceros in his native Nepal. For more information go to souloftherhino.com In early 2006, National Public Radio reported...
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