- Location(s): Herat, Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s to 2000s
At times this can be a harrowing book, in which the author paints brutal scenes but it always retains, especiallythrough the characters of Mariam and Laila, a humanity, tremendous spirit and love. They overcome the challenges that have faced...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Chai and Josi share a bond that transcends ordinary friendship. While Chai has always been Josi’s protector-ever since they were toddlers, growing up together in a small Chinese village-she finds herself helpless when they are both abducted from their...
- Location(s): Guernica
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
Ani believes she is just an insignificant whisper of a 12-year-old girl in a loud world. This is what her mother tells her anyway. Her father made her feel important, but he’s been off fighting in Spain’s Civil War,...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
Walking from the Hoek of Holland to Rotterdam, through Europe, Munich to the Danube – beautifully observed, an absolute classic.
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1966
November in Florence. If you have read`A Florentine Revenge’ find out what happened to the policeman – Sandro Cellini in this novel. He has left the police and is working as a P.I. His first client Is Lucia –...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
A Tour of the Heart: A Seductive Cycling Trip Through France, part memoir, part love story, is a romantic ode to the most visited country in the world. Told by a proudly-feminine and sophisticated travel writer, an expert in...
- Location(s): Australia, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1940s
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, France
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 - early 1940s
230 women from the French Resistance were captured, and taken to on a train to Auschwitz in the Winter of 1943. The first part chroncles the collapse of Vichy France, early 1940s, how the Nazis invaded Paris. It then...