- Location(s): Latvia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return to Latvia—a masterful collage-like work that is part travelogue, part...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After retreating to the familiar comfort of Strathkin following a series of heavy losses, Marcie Mosse is staying at her uncle Callum’s cottage while trying to rebuild her life. The picturesque Highland village, with its mist-shrouded mountains and tranquil...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1989
The story of two women-one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist-this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of...
- Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): 2000 / contemporary
Some memories last a lifetime. Some secrets should stay buried. In 2000, four backpackers – Beth, Claire, Jez, and Max – meet on the sun-drenched shores of Phayom Beach, Thailand. Their gap year travels doing the banana pancake trail...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th Century
A blend of travel writing, memoir, history and current affairs that tells the story of Sri Lanka. A perfect read for first-time visitors, Sri Lankans abroad or at home, or anyone looking to deepen their understanding of one of...
- Location(s): Shanghai, The Yangtze
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1920s
The thrilling conclusion to the Ghosts of Shanghai by the award-winning author of the Mysterium trilogy, for fans of Philip Pullman, Susan Hill and Robin Stevens. Ruby is on a mission to rescue the boy she loves: Charlie has...
- Location(s): Pattaya, Thailand
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Return to the Go-Go is the second volume of insights by Pattaya veteran Khun Pobaan into everyday life in Thailand’s extreme city. The first collection, If You Can’t Stand the Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go, gathered together essays...
- Location(s): Cythera (Kythira)
- Genre(s): Crime
When HMS Mentor sank off the island of Kythira in 1802, 17 crates of sculptures prized off the Parthenon on the orders of Lord Elgin went to the bottom of the sea. Later they were all salvaged and taken...
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village—and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II—centuries of earthquakes, landslides, and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain,...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 16th Century
(The Shardlake Series Book 4) The fourth novel in the Shardlake series. Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are...
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