- Location(s): Hisarlik (Troy)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Trojan War
The past is never done with: always the song continues Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it....
- Location(s): World, Guyana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Song is just a boy when he sets out from Lishui village in China. Brimming with courage and ambition, he leaves behind his impoverished broken family, hoping he’ll make his fortune and return home. Chasing tales of sugarcane, rubber...
Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence
- Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
‘Believable, page-turning and memorable.’ Lela Michael, S.P. Review Winner of the Global Ebook Award for Best Historical Fiction 1150: Provence On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Ally arrives from England with her brothers to stay for a month in Africa – weeks of running wild on an unspoiled, untamed coast amid mangrove creeks, vast white sandy beaches, coral reefs and warm seas. But on their...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
“Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing novel about what it’s like to be a young person in a war. That Chris Abani is able to find humanity,...
- Location(s): England, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Talented composer Alison Connaught has spent her career writing music for big names, but when her actress daughter, Ria, dies from an overdose, alison is numb and an no longer compose. Haunted by the feeling that she had somehow...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel—gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Be, a young Bushman woman searching in the desert for the peace she remembers from her childhood, realizes that she and her people must reconcile new personal and political realities with ancient traditions.
Song of Latvia: A Novel of the Latvian Resistance
- Location(s): Latvia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
With her husband’s name on a hit list, the fight got personal. It is 1940 when World War II invades the lives of history teacher Mija Adamsons and her husband: Aleks, a Latvian colonel, has seen his name on...
- Location(s): Mali, Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): sixteenth-century
“The Legacy of Slavery The Loyalty of Family The Lure of Love” He has no history in the rice fields, no background in being a master. Plantations are as foreign to him as the African plain that birthed the...
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