Sovereign (The Shardlake series)
- Location(s): York
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak....
- Location(s): Latvia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her...
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
- Location(s): Central Asia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 21st Century
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics’ Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991....
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself face-to-face with the twin headaches she’s avoided her entire adult life:...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Nigerian Civil War
Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author’s use of ‘rotten English’—a mixture of Nigerian pidgin...
Spain to Norway on a Bike Called Reggie
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Meet Andrew: French teacher, writer and long-distance cyclist. Now, meet Reggie, his bike. With two European cycling adventures already under his belt, Andrew was ready for a new challenge. Exchanging his job as a teacher in Oxfordshire for an...
- Location(s): Northern Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘Spanish Practices’ weaves together nearly half a century of observations by Rico, an Englishman married into an eccentric family in a left-behind corner of Spain. Among others, we meet Macu, the maiden aunt who runs the family wine business...
Sparkling Like Snow: Book Eight of the Coming Back to Cornwall series
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): present-day
“A lovely joyful read! And it really is quite magical!” “It’s such an engrossing read that captures the imagination, which is so typical of all of Katharine’s novels. Very well written and thought out.” Christmas is coming, and the...
- Location(s): Kabul, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/2008
Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan’s thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan’s progressive president, and Sitara’s beloved...
- Location(s): Cartagena
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 400s
Meet Jacob – aka Sparrow – a boy slave in a brothel in the Spanish city of New Carthage in the last years of pagan Rome. Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy...
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