- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Hong Kong at the beginning of a new millennium – a teeming city where ritual, religion, the spirits of the dead and the spirit of enterprise meet and clash. For Reini ‘Kim’ Kranich, a young German aid worker obsessed...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): The present and past
Red and Green Oil on Water is the story of Bangladesh – the story of her heritage. It is the story of a nation cut from swathes of people, young and old, past and present, future…and not yet imagined....
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction, Political, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Félix Chacaltana Saldívar is a hapless, by-the-book prosecutor living in a small town, six-hundred kilometers from Lima. Until now he has led a life in which nothing exceptionally good or bad has ever happened to him. But when a...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Comtemporary
“…a dazzling portrait of Brooklyn..” Red Magazine An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of ANOTHER BROOKLYN and BROWN GIRL DREAMING. Two families...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Vietnam War
“When a woman comes to Vietnam to cover the war, she’s called a ‘girl reporter.’ When a man comes here, he’s just called a reporter.” Present-day: Who was Hazel Cerny? That’s the question her daughter Bee asks herself after...
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart – their bodies elaborately arranged like angels. With no witnesses, no obvious motives and no apparent connections between the killings, how...
- Location(s): The Western Cape
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): End 18th Century
Winner of four major South African prizes At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey–to...
- Location(s): Lesotho
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The story of a young Southeast Asian girl’s life with her eccentric “blended” family in Lesotho, and her search for the truth about her absent father, is a parable for the country’s own quest for freedom and maturity.Red Dust,...
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