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Complete Stories

Complete Stories
  • Author(s): Clarice Lispector
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

The publication of Clarice Lispector’s Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual...

An Unrestored Woman

An Unrestored Woman
  • Author(s): Shobha Rao
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Post 1947

In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent,...

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mumbai, murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Rachel Joyce. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift...

Mad Love

Mad Love
  • Author(s): Colet Abedi
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

23-year-old aspiring artist Sophie Walker can think of no better place than the exotic paradise of the Maldives Islands to escape the wrath of her controlling parents, the monotony of her boring legal work and her passionless boyfriend. With...

Swimming With Sharks

Swimming With Sharks
  • Author(s): Anna Legat
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Swimming with Sharks is the scintillating new novel by acclaimed author Anna Legat, and the first in the DI Gillian Marsh series. When fortysomething Nicola Eagles goes on the holiday of a lifetime to the Maldives, she never dreams...

Thin Ice

Thin Ice
  • Author(s): Quentin Bates
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Snowed in with a couple of psychopaths for the winter… When two small-time crooks rob Reykjavik’s premier drugs dealer, hoping for a quick escape to the sun, their plans start to unravel after their getaway driver fails to show....

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad
  • Author(s): Mark Twain
  • Location(s): Europe, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1860s

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his “Great Pleasure Excursion” on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS...

The Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard
  • Author(s): Peter Matthiessen
  • Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

One September, the writer and explorer Peter Matthiessen set out with field biologist George Schaller to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the...

All Aboard for the Bobo Road

All Aboard for the Bobo Road
  • Author(s): Stephen Davies
  • Location(s): Burkina Faso
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All aboard for the Bobo Road! Fatima and Galo load the luggage while their dad Big Ali drives the bus. Help count on bikes, sacks of rice, melons and even goats and chickens as the bus travels past Gurunsi...

Hibiscus Fruit

Hibiscus Fruit
  • Author(s): Alison Gray
  • Location(s): Skiathos
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On leave from her job in Newcastle upon Tyne, following the death of her lover, DS Abby Foulkes is on Skiathos with their young son, Johnny. But just as they begin to relax, Johnny finds human bones in a...

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