- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This story is based on true events that happened to a family member of Sara Alexi in the year 2000. Set in the Aegean sea, under the Mediterranean sun, Watching the Wind Blow is a tale of a girl...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
In the lower depths of a massive submarine, ship’s zoologist Nerissa Crane takes an ultrasound of a heavily pregnant Asian elephant. The elephant conceived off-ship but, it transpires, was forced on board – along with Nerissa and a hastily...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
For a young boy growing up in the hills of Central Vietnam, the days were full of adventure and excitement. Nhuong’s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. Tank was extraordinary. He was fierce and fought off tigers and...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s Rosa. There’s trees outside. Get me help. Please. A terrified young woman leaves a phone message for her grandfather. He promised he’d protect her, but now she’s disappeared. A little girl, only three years old, is found half-dead...
- Location(s): Vigo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Amid the aroma of the sea and the Galician pines, a young saxophonist is found dead in his swanky flat overlooking the beach. The murder seems to have taken place after an encounter with a lover, but the way...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): Various
Lyric poetry is the most important branch of literature in Slovenia. The six epic lyric poems in this volume are about the mysterious beings known as Waterlings. They pray and chant incantations, engage in song, tell their legends, and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2001
Trading life in the fast lane of Johannesburg for that of Rotterdam’s serene Oude Haven, Valerie Poore packs all her worldly possessions aboard the historic Dutch barge Hoop and sets about rebuilding both the boat and her life after...
Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2004
The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author’s despair: how to live now that her life has been...
- Location(s): West of Scotland, Lewis, The Outer Hebrides
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Alex is stuck. Stuck in Essex. Stuck in his childhood home. Stuck in a job he hates. The relationship he’d been counting on all these years has finally fallen apart. He’s run out of things to hope for. Anxious,...
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