The Housekeeper and the Professor
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1960s
Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first...
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play...
- Location(s): Paris, French Alps, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through...
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn’t want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there....
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Horror
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
“Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark.” – Stephen King After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1981
Northern Ireland, 1981 The Troubles are tearing apart the country. Neighbour turns on neighbour as the Catholic/Protestant divide rages on. In Maze Prison, a group of men start a hunger strike, wanting to be recognised as political prisoners. On...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Freja arrives in Singapore during the month of the hungry ghost, when old spirits are said to roam the streets. She’s struggling to settle into her dad’s new, ‘happy’ family, and dreams only of escaping home and leaving this...
- Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Thriller, Political
- Era(s): 1980s
Tom Clancy’s rich imagination and his remarkable grasp of the capabilities of advanced technology give this novel an amazing ring of authenticity. It is a thriller with a new twist, a military procedural with an ingenious, tightly woven plot...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern Day
On the vast Buchanan Estate in the wilds of Scotland, tech billionaire James Sullivan dies a suspicious death. Rookie agent RJ Rox is drawn back to a homeland to which she’d sworn she’d never return. She soon realizes the...
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