- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...