- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted...
- Location(s): Chile
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
An electrifying novel about illness, displacement, and what holds us together. Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the “country of the present” but she is from the “country of the past,” a place burdened in...
- Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTING introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction. On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of...
- Location(s): Nevada, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety...
- Location(s): North York Moors
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sarah Carpenter lives in an isolated farmhouse in North Yorkshire, and for the first time after the death of her husband some years ago and her children, Louis and Kitty, leaving for university, she’s living alone. But she doesn’t...
- Location(s): France, Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
A small city in western France, the early 1900s. Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old with a rare talent for drawing, is entranced by brilliant but troubled Lucie, the daughter of a Jewish newspaper magnate, and the two young women embark...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Children are dying on London’s streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited from care homes, picked up and exploited; passed like gifts between gangs. They are London’s lost. Then Raphaela Belsham is killed....










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