The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
- Location(s): Malawi
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): 1987
Formerly Head of English at the University of Malawi, Mapanje was arrested and imprisoned without trial for four years. In these poems of power and unflinching description, he condemns a brutal regime. Today, living in England, he celebrates the...
- Location(s): Croatia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 21st century
In the throes of an unraveling marriage, New Yorker Marina Maržić returns to her native Croatian island where she helps her father with his struggling cheese factory, Sirana. Forced to confront her divided Croatian-American identity and her past as...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City’s creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home –...
- Location(s): Isle of Lewis
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
THE NEW START. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIEND. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Viking
Win. Lose. Survive. I was the boy with a plan. Now I am the boy with nothing. From the moment 12-year-old Kylan hatches a plan to escape from his Norse captors, and return to Scotland to find his mother,...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
As the leaves fall, he’s coming for you. . . One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a terrible discovery. A young woman is found brutally murdered with one of her hands missing. Above her hangs...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1887
From the acclaimed author of Elsetime, shortlisted for the Awesome Book Award, a magical and thrilling adventure. “Starting on All Fools Day, twelve years ago, I remember everything. EVERYTHING. That was a wet Saturday, and that was the day...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they’ll be expecting you. These are the directions Kotoko has been...
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state – and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers human remains, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but...
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