- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Tim Winton brings the landscape to life in Shallows, a historical fiction novel about pride and loneliness. One hundred and fifty years after the establishment of land-based whaling in Australia, its last outpost is Angelus, a small town already...
- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Adam Milan washes up on the coast of Bali after being forced off a yacht at gunpoint by a psychotic captain. He is taken in by Anak, a Balinese hotel owner and healer. During his recuperation Adam is reported...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Iris, an American, is visiting India for the first time with her fiancee and not enjoying the trip. When she steps down from the train at Shambala Junction to buy a bottle of water, little does she know that...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage, Historical
- Era(s): Around WW2
Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 1930s
On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century’s most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the illustrious Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily ‘Mickey’ Hahn arrived there...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century (Jazz Age)
Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King’s ward, she has spent the past ninety years running...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Have kids, will travel’ is veteran travel journalist Kate’s mantra. Her intrepid spirit is infectious in this warm, engaging account of her family’s adventures and misadventures. She shares the life lessons learnt on their travels, from overcoming disappointment in...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of obsession, enchantment and adventure. A love song to the sea,...
- Location(s): Somalia, Mogadishu (Mogadiscio)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Lieutenant Gavin Kelly’s recon platoon swims ashore a Mogadishu beach under the glare of hundreds of news camera lights, it is an appropriately surreal beginning to Operation Restore Hope. This modern war is vastly different from the battles...
Sharks in the Time of Saviours
- Location(s): Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1995
‘The novel you never knew you were waiting for’ Marlon James ‘I didn’t want it to end’ Sarah Moss In 1995 in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores is saved from drowning by a shiver of sharks. His family, struggling...
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