Tales of India: Folk Tales from Bengal, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu
- Location(s): Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A shape-shifting tiger and a pretentious rat. A generous goddess and a powerful demon. A clever princess and a prince who returns from the dead. This collection of 16 traditional tales transports readers to the beguiling world of Indian...
Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A goblin with no body and a monster with no face. A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter. A spirit of the moon and a dragon king. This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports readers to a time...
Tales of Old Shanghai: The Glorious Past of China’s Greatest City
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West and this engaging book offers a glimpse into that world through an assortment of photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, stamps, and other collectibles. Evoking different eras, this...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is an anthology of stories, personal observations and historic legends. It reflects the author’s fascination with Africa’s people and their history as well as her identification with individuals and their conflicting emotions.
- Location(s): Tanta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tales of Yusuf Tadrus is set in the Egyptian Delta town of Tanta, and tells the story of a young Coptic artist from a humble background. It provides an intimate glimpse into Egyptian Christian life, and carefully tells of...
Tales Out of School (Top of the Dale Book Two)
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After an eventful start to his first ever teaching post in the sleepy village of Risingdale, Tom Dwyer is hoping for a bit of calm. Nursing a broken heart after a romantic disappointment, he just wants to keep his...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Siamak Herawi brings Afghan women centerstage and takes us deep into the heart of his motherland to witness the reality of their lives under the Taliban’s most extreme interpretation of Islam. Based on true stories, the result is a...
- Location(s): West of Scotland, Ayrshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
A young boy finds a body on a deserted Scottish beach. DS West searches for absconded DI Munro to help track down the killer. Left to her own devices Detective Sergeant Charlie West struggles with the responsibility of a...
- Location(s): Tunisia, Tunis
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
Talismano is a novelistic exploration of writing seen as a hallucinatory journey through half-remembered, half-imagined cities—in particular, the city of Tunis, both as it is now, and as it once was. Walking and writing, journey and journal, mirror one...
- Location(s): Bonnybridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
An uplifting black comedy of love, family life and friendship, Talk of the Toun is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set in the summer of 1985, in working class, central belt Scotland. Lifelong friends Angela and Lorraine are two...
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