Rah Rah and Roos Farming and Travel in the Great Southern Land
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2002
Is it time you ditched the office and headed to the outback of Australia for the adventure of a lifetime? In 2002, a young Englishman left London behind to do just that. One year, 2,000 sheep: 4,000 km travelled....
- Location(s): Wolverhampton, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s & 2000s
Rainbow Milk is an intersectional coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of a Jehovah’s Witness upbringing and the legacies of the Windrush generation. In the Black Country...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1892
Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his lifefrom the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Born a princess of the Royal Household of Balmer, Jaya Singh is torn between the traditions of her upbringing and the ideals of the Mahatma, as India draws inexorably towards the bloody struggle for independence from the British Raj....
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
A mother pickpocketing tourists in order to support her daughter. An elderly war veteran ashamed of his actions during the Holocaust. Two brothers hunting a killer bear. A Syrian refugee working in a Sofia bakery. A femme fatale disappearing...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Meet the residents of 31 Alamanac Road . . . Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates. Nothing can come between them – until the gorgeous Jemima moves in. They’re both falling for her, but which one of...
Rama and Sita: The Story of Diwali
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The perfect picture book to introduce children to Rama and Sita and the story of Diwali, with text by award-winning author Malachy Doyle and stunning, colourful illustrations from Christopher Corr. Rama and Sita live happily in the forest –...
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A contemporary twist on a classic story of forbidden love, set in Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia. When Vic accepts a teaching position in Jakarta, she has already been working and travelling in Asia for many years; she thinks...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Koji is twenty-seven and one module short of a degree in Politics and Government. The missing module is Crisis Management. It feels appropriate. For six years, he has worked in a tiny ramen shop with eleven seats, one dish...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): Present
The saga of farcical Greek life in the fictional fishing village of Astakos continues in ‘Rampaging Roosters’. Quentin’s mother Hattie, the deluded victim of a catfisher, befriends the two old crones and Bald Yannis devises some devious new scams....
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