My French Platter – a Journey to a Dream Life in France
- 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...
- Location(s): South West France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2014
When Annemarie and Steve are unceremoniously sacked by a belligerent boss, they’re forced to find a new home and work. As they take on the management of their new employers’ majestic house, will the opportunities to create luscious food...
- Location(s): South West France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2014
When Annemarie and Steve are unceremoniously sacked by a belligerent boss, they’re forced to find a new home and work. As they take on the management of their new employers’ majestic house, will the opportunities to create luscious food...
- Location(s): Wyoming
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1940s
Ken the young daydreamer yearns for a colt of his own. In an effort to drive up his school grades, he is promised his own colt and it is the relationship and the determination of young Ken to do...
- Location(s): Equatorial Guinea, Liberia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2002
He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of the Liberian Civil War in 2002. Running with the infamous LURD rebels, he survived...
- Location(s): Libya, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide – from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two...
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): N/A
Sharp and tender at once, a humourous take on family dysfunction and human weakness seen through a young boy’s eyes. Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother―a terrifying, stubborn matriarch...
- Location(s): Santorini
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
She’s a heartbroken single mom. He’s a brooding bachelor with no time for love. But Christmas on a small farm in Santorini has a way of working miracles… Cathy, a single mom, takes a seasonal housekeeping job expecting peace—not...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Balkans
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century
TRANSLATED BY CELIA HAWKESWORTH An intimate work of autobiographical fiction by one of ex-Yugoslavia’s greatest writers about his family’s experience as refugees from the Bosnian war – a timeless story of love, memory, and the resilience of the human...
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