- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. ‘Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not...
- Location(s): Makatea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead to a...
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1991
Video game villains and real-life dictators dominate daily life for eleven-year-old Ali Ali Fadhil has very simple likes and dislikes. It is 1991 in Iraq and all Ali wants to do is read his comics and play football and...
- Location(s): Parma
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A slow-burn, spicy holiday romance for fans of Ana Huang, Elena Armas, and Jenny Han — morally grey, multicultural, and utterly unputdownable. Sometimes love is like fire… get too close, and you’re bound to get burned. When Paige Lancaster...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The funny, disturbing and deeply affecting new book by the acclaimed author of Terms & Conditions Charlie, a curious boy with a dangerous dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel, as the African nation of Bwalo...
Please Don’t Ask For Extra Glasses
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): current
Guess what India? We’re baaack! After our travel adventures the year before in which none of us technically died — although there were times it seemed like an attractive option — my two long-suffering travel companions, Jaya and Janine,...
- Location(s): Austria
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
After a true crime podcast reopens her cousin’s murder case, a woman must confront her past at a glamorous European castle-turned-hotel where she follows a trail of toxic family secrets and deadly lies in this Gothic-tinged thriller perfect for...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A BEAUTIFUL RESORT It looked like the perfect getaway. A luxury resort with endless pools, a gorgeous golden beach, and a kids’ club that is every parent’s dream. But for Amanda, a British detective in desperate need of a...
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