- Location(s): The Galápagos Islands (Galapagos)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Galapagos Islands have captured hearts and captivated imaginations for centuries. Such is their ecological importance that in 1978 the archipelago was declared the first ever World Heritage Site, a testament to our collective desire to preserve the magic...
My Father’s Dreams: A Tale of Innocence Abused
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
My Father’s Dreams is a controversial and shocking novel by Slovenia’s bestselling author Evald Flisar, and is regarded by many critics as his best. The book tells the story of fourteen-year-old Adam, the only son of a village doctor...
- Location(s): Kurdistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s / 1970s
My Father’s Rifle is a beautiful narrative about the life of boy named Azad and his coming-of-age in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is proud of...
- Location(s): Angola, Benguela, Luanda
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Upon his death the famous Angolan composer Faustino Manso left seven widows and 18 children. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, a filmmaker, tries to reconstruct the late musician’s turbulent life.
- Location(s): Eritrea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood...
- Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1830s
Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender-bent take on My Fair Lady from Jennieke Cohen, author of Dangerous Alliance—perfect for fans of Bridgerton or A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice...
- Location(s): Jordan, West Bank
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
After many decades of restless exile, Nadal returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba that scattered her family across the globe. She was a young girl when the...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Biography, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her...
- Location(s): South West France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2014
When Annemarie and her husband, Steve, leave their life in New Zealand to manage a 15th-century farmhouse in France, they have no idea they’ll end up homeless. No idea they’ll need to live in filth, rely on dilapidated equipment...
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