Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
All of Mumbai’s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things – medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal – a small,...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Journey to the highest peaks and plateaus of planet Earth…but make sure to bring your climbing gear! Take a closer look at the mountains of the world, from the Alps to the Andes to the peaks of the Himalayas....
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Jennie’s life has always been planned to the nth degree, but no amount of planning could have prepared her for losing someone she loved. Someone she’d planned on spending the rest of her life with. She’d grieved, according to...
- Location(s): New Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Struggling with her mother’s marriage and her ex’s attempts to gain custody of their daughter, Ella Clah investigates the murder of a New Mexico National Guard soldier whose death points to corruption in the victim’s unit and the involvement...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The bestselling Irish debut novel – a multigenerational portrait of small-town life bursting with caustic wit – for fans of Jon McGregor, Elizabeth Strout and Paul Murray Welcome to Ballyrowan: a village built out of stories. Stories about the...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Near future
‘Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I’m all over it’ Gillian Flynn Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers....
- Location(s): Mozambique
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lisa St. Aubin de Terán traveled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-traveled life, felt at home—in a place “so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama.” After three marriages...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Mr Chicken has always loved reading about Rome. Now it’s time to see it in the flesh. With his helpful phrasebook, a friendly guide and an insatiable appetite, Mr Chicken is ready for anything. From the creator of the...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Miscellaneous
- Era(s): 181
One “had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.” From its very first appearance 200 years ago on the pages of Jane Austen’s...
- Location(s): Derbyshire, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Regency
One dark secret can completely ruin a bright future… After capturing the heart of the most eligible bachelor in England, Elizabeth Bennet believes her happiness is complete-until the day she unearths a stash of anonymous, passionate love letters that...
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