- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
An introduction to some of the best bothies in the UK. Featuring 26 selected bothies, the author shares her memories of using these free ‘stone tents’ in some of the country’s wildest and most remote locations. Alongside notes on...
The Book of Tokyo (Reading The World)
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
When Mia, a Jewish teenager from Ontario, goes to Israel to spend the summer studying at a yeshiva, or seminary, she wants to connect with the land and deepen her understanding of Judaism. However, Mia’s summer plans go astray...
- Location(s): Egypt, Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Historical
- Era(s): Renaissance (late 15th century)
It is 1498, the dawn of the Renaissance, and Venice teems with rumors about an ancient book that holds the secret to unimaginable power. It is an alchemist’s dream, with recipes for gold, immortality, and undying love. But while...
- Location(s): Delaware
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Set in modern day Delaware, in an apartment building populated by immigrants from Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, this powerful book tells the stories of these unknown people, most of whom are American citizens or legal immigrants with visas, who are...
The Book of Venice (Reading The City)
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
With its gondola-filled canals and beautiful architecture, the floating city of Venice is unlike anywhere else in the world. It is a city where apparent opposites intersect; at once aquatic and terrestrial, past and present, east and west, spiritual...
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything–everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy’s not only a book woman,...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1914
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
‘Your job is to bind the books, not read them.’ When the men of Oxford University Press leave for the Western Front, Peggy, her twin sister Maude and their friends in the bookbindery must shoulder the burden at home....
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