- Location(s): Harare, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
It is just after nine o’clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. ‘Rotten Row’ is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the...
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Mongol Derby is the world’s toughest horse race. A feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan, competitors ride 25 horses across a distance of 1000km. Many riders don’t make...
- Location(s): North Cornwall
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Julian is a contented if naïve only child, and a holiday on the coast of North Cornwall should be perfect, especially when distant American cousins join the party. But their arrival brings upheaval and unexpected turmoil. It is only...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): 1860s
Based on Mark Twain’s 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens,...
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th century
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s ‘Mani’ compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and...
- Location(s): Aleppo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jumaa is a schoolteacher in Aleppo. He observes and lives through the literal disintegration of his beautiful native city. Through his eyes, in a mixture of first and third person narration, we experience the razing of entire neighbourhoods, the...