- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to...
- Location(s): Australia, Oceania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): 2013 - 2022
Taking the reader on a journey through love, faith, death, grief, family and dreams, “The Night Fisher Elegies” weaves together powerful explorations of humanism, moments of reflection that are tinged with melancholy, and short verses that inhabit the sometimes...
- Location(s): Linden, New Jersey
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1999 and 2015
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in Linden, New...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), London, Sussex
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia at, of all places, a luxurious condominium overlooking a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course. The purpose of this summit meeting of terrorists was...
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
“There is no problem so great it cannot be solved by a cup of bush tea.” The prolific Alexander McCall Smith is the undisputed king of cosy crime, the antithesis of the much-touted Tartan Noir movement. His Precious Ramotswe...
- Location(s): Africa, Sahara
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Turn of 20thCentury
Born to Russian emigres and brought up in an atmosphere of intellectual and aristocratic anachism, in her short life Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and a representative of everything that seemed dangerous in...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Current
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and...
- Location(s): Arctic, Greenland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner...
- Location(s): South London, India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
A story of racial violence on the streets of south east London in the 1960s. First published in 1972, the book still has contemporary resonance. Features an extensive new introduction from Paris Review columnist Emma Garman. Srinivas, an elderly...
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