- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe. Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948’s Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he’s ever known, the one on the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m very pleased we have…’ It is summer. Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
Drive-by shootings, drug overdoses, and multi-car accidentsaas a paramedic, he thought he had seen it all, until he answered a small job advertisement that changed his life forever. Welcome to the mysterious world of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,...
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.’ ALI SMITH ‘A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.’ INDEPENDENT The new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic...
- Location(s): Tanzania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is an extraordinary first novel by a Tanzanian women writer. The central character, Doreen, tells her story in the first person narrative. Born into a women headed household in a rural area, her inner life and development mirror...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th Century
Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1970s
PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Some stories are still waiting to be found. In a city of millions, it’s easy to lose someone… Twelve weeks before Leah Eady arrived in France, her husband disappeared. Early one morning, he walked out the door and never...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Paris Can’t Save Us, Claire and Luke, a couple seeking a fresh start and a chance to further Claire’s career, move to the City of Light for a year. Amidst the enchanting backdrop of the Parisian cafes and...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 20th Century
In Paris France (1940)–published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik–Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a...
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