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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
  • Author(s): Dinaw Mengestu
  • Location(s): Ethiopia, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow...

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
  • Author(s): Ayi Kwei Armah
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the novel that catapulted Ayi Kwei...

The Beckoning Silence

The Beckoning Silence
  • Author(s): Joe Simpson
  • Location(s): Bolivia, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Bee Sting

The Bee Sting
  • Author(s): Paul Murray
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking – a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart… ‘It’s a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your...

The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
  • Author(s): Dunya Mikhail
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2014 onwards

In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people,...

The Beekeeper’s Promise

The Beekeeper’s Promise
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): WW2 and modern

Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château Bellevue. The old château echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman’s...

The Belladonna Maze

The Belladonna Maze
  • Author(s): Sinéad Crowley
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual Timeline

An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of Ireland certainly does. At the heart of the gardens is an intricate maze, named after a deadly poison, Belladonna. If you know the way through, it’s magical,...

The Bells of Old Tokyo

The Bells of Old Tokyo
  • Author(s): Anna Sherman
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the...

The Belly Dancer

The Belly Dancer
  • Author(s): Margaret Halliday
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 1990s

Margaret Halliday’s fourth book, The Belly Dancer is a romantic thriller set mainly in Istanbul in the early 1990s. Gemma, a young English woman, finds herself involved in more than just teaching English soon after her arrival in Turkey....

The Belly of the Atlantic

The Belly of the Atlantic
  • Author(s): Fatou Diome
  • Location(s): Senegal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Salie lives in Paris. Back home on the Senegalese island of Niodior, her football-crazy brother, Madick, counts on her to get him to France, the promised land where foreign footballers become world famous. Given his illusions, how can Salie...

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