- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1850s
A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance told by a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia. Hester Finch’s comfortable life in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt...
- Location(s): Kuwait, Nablus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1967 onwards
“Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan’s powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up...
Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife
- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 2000s
In 2000, Michele Longo Eder began a journal to record what daily life was like for her while her husband and sons were out commercial fishing off the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and northern California. But personal tragedy struck...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Cli-fi, Dystopian, Fiction
- Era(s): The future
Britain is awash, the sea creeps into the land, brambles and forest swamp derelict towns. Food production has moved overseas and people are forced to move to the cities for work. The countryside is empty. A chorus, the herd...
- Location(s): Spain, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police,...
- Location(s): County Donegal, London, Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...










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