More Manchester Than Mongolia: An Unexpected Road Trip Through Back Road Britain
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Present
The Comic Memoir of a Grand Plan Gone Wrong WINNER: Readers’ Favorite 5* Seal 2025 “I haven’t laughed so much at the written word since Pam Ayres released Some of Me Poetry in 1976!” Drew Johnson, author of the...
More of This World or Maybe Another
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
More of This World or Maybe Another is a collection of award-winning short fiction about four outsiders whose unruly lives intersect on the back streets of New Orleans from writer Barb Johnson. Funny and haunting by turns, Johnson’s unforgettable...
- Location(s): Alsace
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
One year is nothing; one year changes everything. ‘You’re old and cold,’ are the words that end Anne Grüber’s three-year relationship with a fellow-teacher. A hurtful insult that she fears may be true. What chance does she have now...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy
- Era(s): 400s AD
When King Uther Pendragon murders her father and tricks her mother into marriage, Morgan refuses to be crushed. Trapped amid the machinations of men in a world of isolated castles and gossiping courts, she discovers secret powers. Vengeful and...
- Location(s): The Bahamas
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1492
In alternating chapters, Morning Girl, a twelve year old Taino, and her younger brother, Star Boy, vividly recreate life on a Bahamian island in 1492 — a life that is rich, complex, and soon to be threatened. The award-winning...
- Location(s): Whitney, Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
LOVE IN A STRANGER’S EYES… ELLY In town, they called her “Crazy Widow Dinsmore.” But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule–she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict...
- Location(s): Palestine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1948 onwards
Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her six-month-old son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, her son is snatched from her arms and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever....
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
A beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime. For the last twenty years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with Mayumi Inaba’s...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Noir
- Era(s): Various
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
While much of the Middle East is now engulfed in conflict and repression, Morocco remains a curious anomaly: peaceful and open to the West, it has provided refuge for artists and writers for generations, and it remains an exotic...
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