- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. Radical, charged with a transformative, elemental power, each of these stories invites us to stand...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
A gripping DI Winter Meadows mystery set in the heart of Wales When Natalie Benyon’s eighteen-month-old daughter Ella disappears from a housing estate, the police and local community act quickly to organise a search. Given the age of the...
- Location(s): Bigelow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears her past is catching up with her....
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Sugar Street, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz’s masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost...
Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Historical, Short Stories
- Era(s): 1838-1917
Sugar, Sugar is a contemporary collection of short stories which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India’s migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents between 1838...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Subtly raising important issues such as racism, religion, identity, class and patriarchy, Jaswal’s second novel sensitively portrays Singaporean life through the eyes of a child. Pin must not become like her mother, but nobody will tell her why. She...
Suit to Saddle: Cycing To Self-Discovery On The Southern Tier
- Location(s): The American South
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2018
“Your job has been eliminated.” In other words, you’re unemployed, out of work, and desperate to find a new purpose. When US Army veteran Larry Walsh heard those words, his world was turned upside down. He desires to move...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Her new summer job comes with baggage Scarlett Martin has grown up in a most unusual way. Her family owns the Hopewell, a small Art Deco hotel in the heart of New York City. When each of the Martins...
- Location(s): Charleston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The New York Times bestseller—in paperback for the first time!Set in the steamy, stormy landscape of South Carolina, Sullivan’s Island tells the unforgettable story of one woman’s courageous journey toward truth. Born and raised on idyllic Sullivan’s Island, Susan...
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