- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
This Is Our World, written by Tracey Turner, is a colourful celebration of our planet’s cultural and environmental diversity – an unforgettable journey that brings the people, customs and wildlife of twenty places around the world vividly to life...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides...
- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides...
- Location(s): Italy, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two strangers—generations and oceans apart—have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another. In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano...
- Location(s): New Zealand
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the ‘jukebox killer’, was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a...
- Location(s): Harare
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed. Here we...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feast to conjure and cook An infidelity to investigate A lost soul to set...
- Location(s): Nimes
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Current
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn’t...
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