- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late Victorian era
Woodrow Riley, a young man working at the London Hospital is introduced to a man named Doctor Francis Tumblety who says he collects human organs for his medical research. Woodrow is asked to help him and gladly accepts only...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
1960s Rome. As teenage André stands on the dock, his mother fusses over their luggage – 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of...
- Location(s): China, Tibet, Wales
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
ROWLAND EVANS has led a truly remarkable life, but his seventieth year saw his driven, purposeful walk brought to an abrupt halt amidst the concerns and attitudes of the world to those “of a certain age”. In this lyrical...
- Location(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods-all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and...
- Location(s): England, Syria
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern looking back
This novel is listed as also being in Syria… it is an insightful reflection of the time spent there war reporting, seen from England…. Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war reporter, she’s...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th / early 21st century
My Sisters Made of Light follows three generations of a Pakistani family as they make their way through life in the political, social, and religious maze that is their motherland. This novel pulls readers into the compelling, heartbreaking, and...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical acclaim.
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap; but the father is no ordinary man, and the family, threatened by the affair, is no ordinary family. This...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 21st century
Kate Donovan is burned out on work, worn down by her dating relationships, and in need of an adventure. When her grandmother asks her to accompany her to Redbud, Pennsylvania, to restore the grand old house she grew up...
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