- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
There was someone in the house. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then she hears a noise – old houses are always...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s – an...
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaw’s drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fool’s-gold chase through the city’s...
- Location(s): British Columbia, Mexico, Vancouver
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s to present day
Nine Birds Singing is a poignant coming-of-age story. Readers travel back to the swinging 60s in Vancouver with Maddie, a young woman breaking free of her religious upbringing. Follow Maddie’s journey from Vancouver, to Mexico, to the Gulf Islands...
- Location(s): Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Nambonkaha
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn’t yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman...
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1947 onwards
June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago, inspired by the news, Oliver Danville, a failed actor now reduced to a mediocre...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Sterling, NH is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens – until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The...
Ninety-Three Days: A Journey to Freedom
- Location(s): Eritrea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
The civil war in Ethiopia and Eritrea lasted for decades after the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I. In 1976 the author, with the help of the legendary freedom fighters of the Eritrean Popular Liberation Front (EPLF), escaped to...
- Location(s): South Africa, Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An elegant and evocative novel about people, place – and pests – by one of South Africa’s most exciting writers. Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in ‘the unlovely and unloved’. Yet in contrast to her father,...
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