- Location(s): Key West
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1935
Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labour Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s...
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
- Location(s): Angola, Namibia, South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 21st century
“Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,” writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey through the continent he knows and loves best. Theroux first came to Africa as a twenty-two-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, and...
- Location(s): Anatolia, Turkey
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
‘What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning… For Nedim Gürsel, the state of exile isn’t a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which...
- Location(s): Illinois
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow’s The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County’s most revered courtroom advocate, Sandy Stern. On the brink of retirement, legendary defence attorney Sandy Stern is persuaded to take...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): early 2000s
Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from life—no doubt because when...
- Location(s): The North East (England), South Tyneside
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1940s and modern day
The majestic Souter Lighthouse stands proudly at the edge of the cliff top surrounded by open grassy empty fields and overlooking a vast blue wilderness. Anna Charles knows nothing of the life that her grandmother once had here. It...