Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia
- Location(s): Riyadh
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s / early 1990s
In this provocative and incisive memoir, Peter Theroux reveals the Middle East only as a true insider can. Stationed as a journalist in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for most of his seven years in the region, Theroux explodes the romantic...
- Location(s): West Africa, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1970s
Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother – the only parent who raised her...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One of Soseki’s most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving ‘real world’ of Tokyo, its women and university. In...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Among the great corpses of our age are Lenin, Mao Tse-tung and Stalin. Mao, at least, is still on view for the masses to see, some two decades after his demise. But no corpse engendered as much intrigue as...
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Surrounded by glimmering olive groves and embellished with flower-lined alleys, it would be easy to believe that Santa Lucia is as idyllic as it appears. After all, what drama could possibly unfold in such a storybook village? As it...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s going to be a holly jolly Christmas… Toy Store owner Elodie Martin is not one to get into the festive spirit but nothing gets her fired up more than the chance to get one over on her nemesis,...
- Location(s): Mexico, Texas
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Near Future
Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive “Wolf-Man” who had a love affair with a local...
- Location(s): County Donegal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1999
In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an outwardly idyllic life. Her tender husband Daithí and two beloved daughters are regular subjects for her work, and in them she has found the safe home...
- Location(s): Paris, Mecca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979
November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among the insurgents is a...
- Location(s): Sarajevo
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
April 2024. A well-known Albanian writer arrives in Sarajevo for a one-month literary residency. By the next day, he realizes he has no real idea what to write about, despite the promising project he outlined in his residency application....
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