- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
James Joyce’s Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown. Joyce’s first major work, written when...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1960s/1970
J.J Walsh and Tony ‘El Greco’ Papadakis are inseparable. Smoking Kents out on an abandoned cannery dock, and watching gulls sway on rusting buoys in the sea, they dream of adventure…a time when they can act as adults. The...
- Location(s): Central Asia, China, North Africa, Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy...
- Location(s): Glencoe, Ballachulish
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The gripping 19th installment of the Sunday Times bestselling DSI Lorimer series (DSI William Lorimer) A consistent delight, wonderful’ ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH After a stressful winter, DSI William Lorimer is enjoying some time away from Glasgow. He and his...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night – a disgrace...
- Location(s): Oslo, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern
A MYSTICAL FOREST . . . AN ANCIENT PROPHECY . . . A LOVE THAT SPANS LIFETIMES Free-spirited book-club founder, Rosetta, and polished traditionalist, Matthew, are yet to meet and have little in common, but time-travelling sprites from a...
- Location(s): Verbier
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
When your life goes off-piste how do you climb back up the mountain? Holly Roberts is well-known among family and friends for despising the cold, so no one is more surprised than her when she agrees to pack her...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
‘Beautiful, kaleidoscopic . . . everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on’ Eimear McBride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
“A Vietnamese Brothers Grimm tale! A little bit of creepy to read while curled up with on the couch. A 24hr read. Well translated to English.” – Reedsy Discovery. ◆◆◆ Spirited Away meets Coraline in the Suburbs of Hanoi,...