- Location(s): Jordan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 19th century
PETRA A NOVEL explores the redemptive power of love and friendship in an intoxicating story of art and ambition, guilt and forgiveness, travel and empire in the 19th century Middle East. In 1860, Thomas Hudson towers over the New...
- Location(s): Jordan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 4th century BC
Petra, the wondrous ancient city carved from the mountains of modern Jordan, is at the height of its glory in this gripping historical novel by T. L. Higley. A young widow, Cassia, and her son, Alexander, have arrived there...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 6) Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that can drive even the sanest people a little crazy… An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless, racially ambiguous, and refuses to speak. One family takes the strange...
PHENOMENA the Lost and Forgotten Children.
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1926-1950
The Lost and Forgotten Children of New Zealand’s Early Mental Health System. As a child I knew Malcolm, who was then a young man. Dad often invited him home for meals. Malcolm was one of the ‘lost children’ forgotten...
- Location(s): Phnom Penh
- Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
- Era(s): Current
Authors: Roland Joffé, James Grady, John Burdett, Christopher G. Moore, Kosal Khiev, Prabda Yoon, Bopha Phorn, Giancarlo Narciso, Christopher West, Richard Rubenstein, Suong Mak, Andrew Nette, Bob Bergin, Neil Wilford and Christopher Minko. Many noir anthologies have inspired writers...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Tudor
The last hour of Anne Boleyn’s life… Court intrigue, revenge and all the secrets of the last hour are revealed as one queen falls and another rises to take her place on destiny’s stage. A young Anne Boleyn arrives...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Arohan is desperate for a guitar. What eight year old boy isn’t? So when Arohan s grandmother gives him a plain old bamboo flute for his birthday, he is understandably a little upset. But the xiao is no ordinary...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
MURDER IN HIGH C… A persistent paparazzi has hounded operatic soprano Isabella Sommita until her nerves are at the breaking point. Now her millionaire boyfriend has whisked her to a New Zealand island to recover. There she plans a...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 21st century
At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped...
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