- Location(s): North India
- Genre(s): Essays, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Centuries ago, the myths say, the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Northern India. But when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for his grandmother’s funeral, he is astonished to find water in the long-dry well behind...
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Farah’s landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorshiptrilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of...
- Location(s): Australia, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Crossing continents and spanning decades, Saree is an epic story of beauty, oppression and freedom, for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Mosse. Nila wasn’t born beautiful or powerful or rich – but she has a rare talent to...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2000
In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday Is for Funerals we learn why that won’t happen. Unity Dow and Max Essex tell the...
- Location(s): Western Australia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
When Lucy Hush’s brother is framed for murder, the race is on to find the real culprit. Tim Hush is a drifter who prefers the solitude of the vast Australian wilderness to human company. But he falls for an...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), South Africa, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
Calcutta, 1757. Bengal is on the brink of war. The East India Company, led by the fearsome Sir Peter Chilcott, are advancing and nobody is safe. Meena, the Nawab’s neglected and abused daughter, finds herself falling under the spell...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan’s hypnotic prose. A retelling of the favourite Irish fairytale The Children of Lir. Aife marries Lir, a king with four children by his previous wife. Jealous of...
- Location(s): Savannah
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
For fans of Susan Isaacs and Jennifer Cruise comes a witty, wisecracking tale of divorce, revenge, and great antiques, set in sultry Savannah.Landing a catch like ultra-Wasp Talmadge Evans III got Eloise “Weezie” Foley a jewel of a town...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): 20th century (second half)
When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. Yet Reichl had been reading ‘Gourmet’ since she...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Inle Lake
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas morning tour – and disappear. Through the twists of fate, curses and just plain human error, they...
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