- Location(s): Alberta
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 20th century
‘Mrs. Mike’ is a love story, a true story; the story of Katherine Mary O’Fallon, a sixteen year-old Irish girl from Boston, and Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Canadian Mounted Police who meet at her uncle’s ranch in Alberta,...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Now the incredible Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on a safari to smoke out a very clever international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. “Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that safari,” the...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1990s
After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives of the passengers on board, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in fictional Alnster in Northumberland At thirty-three-years old, Evie’s life in Chicago is missing that special something. When she’s passed over for promotion at work, Evie realizes she needs to make a change. Impulsively, she plans a holiday...
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania
- Location(s): Albania
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
*Winner of the Polityka Passport Prize* *Shortlisted for the Nike Prize* After breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism. Every day, many of its citizens...
Mud, Sweat and Gears: Cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats (Via the Pub)
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
As Ellie’s fiftieth birthday approaches and her ambitions of a steady income, a successful career and an ascent of Everest seem as far away as ever, she begins to doubt she’s capable of achieving anything at all. So when...
Mudlarking: Lost And Found on the River Thames
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Current
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian...
“Mukiwa” is Shona for white man. Peter Godwin had an unusual childhood – his mother was a doctor and allowed him to take part in conducting post mortems and unlike most “mukiwa”, Peter had black friends. As the war...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
“What a mess, she thought now . . . what a bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got itself into.” It’s been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1991
A unique and unforgettable cast of characters shines through eight interconnected stories, influenced by true incidents from the 1990s to 2000s Mumbai. As the Indian economy opens up in 1991, Bombay (now Mumbai) – India’s financial hub, witnesses a...
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