- Location(s): East Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder, from the acclaimed author of The Hunting Wives. A woman in the forest thinks she’s going to die. ...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Welcome to Woodland Hills, Louisiana: a place of lush, sweltering summers, neighbourhood cookouts in every backyard and vats of chilled beer under the crepe myrtles. A terrible crime is just about to take place… One day Lindy Simpson cycles...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
Meet Zezé – Brazil’s naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a ‘poet with a bow-tie’ but for now he entertains himself playing...
- Location(s): Chust, Uzbekistan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 17th century
An original interpretation of the timelessly fascinating vampire myth, and a story of father and son, by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In the bitter cold of an...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor’s Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): In Translation, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yuliia Iliukha’s My Women, translated from Ukrainian by Hanna Leliv, is an urgent and poignant story collection of women confronted by the countless brutalities of war. It locates the voices and devastating experiences of those who have been silenced,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Jane Takagi-Little, by trade a documentary filmmaker, by nature a truth seeker, is “racially half, ” Japanese and American, and, as she tells us, “neither here nor there…” Jane is sharp-edged, desperate for a job, and determined not to...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists...
Mydworth Mysteries – Secrets of the Cote d’Azur
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1929
When Harry and Kat head south to the French Riviera, they look forward to dazzling parties, a shimmering sea, and wonderful food. But once they step off the legendary Paris-Nice train, Le Train Bleu, things start to be anything...
- Location(s): Mykonos
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