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Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
Era(s): 1960s
It is 1965. Ian Smith unilaterally declares Rhodesia independent under white minority rule. The UN declares an embargo, bestowing Her Majesty’s government whatever means of enforcement necessary. With no country recognising Rhodesia, they are desperate for trade. David Tusk,...
Location(s): New Zealand
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown...
Location(s): Guernsey
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): Various
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of...
Location(s): Edinburgh
Genre(s): Young Adult
Era(s): Contemoporary
A boy wakes up on a train to Edinburgh.He is shocked to discover that no idea who he is or how he came to be on the train – and once off it, he finds himself immersed in the...
Location(s): Tajikistan
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 2007-2008
Dedicated to the women of Tajikistan, The Disobedient Wife intertwines the narratives of a British expatriate, Harriet, whose journal portrays a darker interior world than that of the rich wife of the powerful Henri Simenon, and Nargis, her local...
Location(s): New York City (NYC)
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern/1950s
When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 Darby McLaughlin is everything her hall mates aren’t: plain, self-conscious, homesick and convinced she doesn’t belong. Yet when she befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she’s introduced to an entirely...
Location(s): China
Genre(s): Travelogue
Era(s): Modern
Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China’s borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage ‘the mountains are high and...
Location(s): Cyprus
Genre(s): Thriller
Era(s): Contemporary
Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. Wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit, his best friend has just been murdered and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed...
Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): 2007
American writer Susan Conley moves to Beijing with her husband and two young sons. A few months later she receives the diagnosis of breast cancer.The book is set against the fascinating backdrop of modern China,a nd offers up insight...
Location(s): Var
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
The annual grape harvest at the Cambon family’s magnificent vineyard is always a cause for celebration. But not this year. When an accident destroys the crop, leaving the estate facing ruin, Clarisse Cambon knows exactly who to blame –...