- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Scarpetta 16 Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
- Era(s): 1990s
When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the intrepid chief medical examiner of Virginia, isn’t busy solving crimes, she is concocting delicious dishes in her kitchen. In Scarpetta’s Winter Table, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers behind the scenes for intimate glimpses of...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South Africa—that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealingthe story of one family’s...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
If you hurt me, I’ll hurt you. Not right away of course, because where’s the fun in that? When an empty passenger plane mysteriously crashes in the Lake District, journalist Carly Atherton is determined to get to the truth...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father’s health rapidly decline, Charlie and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim, an island off the...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Kraków (Kraków)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged. Oskar Schindler was a heavy-drinking, womanising industrialist who defied and outwitted the SS to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Set during the time of the Falklands War – a shocking exposure of the moral degradation that contaminated institutions of Argentinian society A school assistant in Buenos Aires’most prestigious state school, Maria Teresa Cornejo’s job is to keep the...
- Location(s): London, Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Children, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, 1939
It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends, and her parents...
- Location(s): Middle East, West Indies
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW1
In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers...
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