The Crown, the Tiger, and the Curious Case of the Forty Elephants
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian
In the beginning, Victoria wanted to be King. Following an uncomfortable discussion with her parents about the birds and the bees, Victoria decided that she wanted to be Queen. And so began the sociopathic journey toward the British throne...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Central Asia, Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Historical
- Era(s): 1939
In 1939, adventurer and writer Ella Maillart set off on an epic drive from Geneva to Kabul, accompanied by journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who later became an antifascist and lesbian icon. The two women travelled partly to escape...
The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To The Legendary City Of Timbuktu
- Location(s): Mali, Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception.’ Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Ségou to Timbuktu ...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s Easter, and on a glorious spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead… When C. I. Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec arrives the next morning, he faces...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
It is set in Newcastle in 1996 and follows a young Anglican clergyman who returns to his native North East to plant a new church in a deprived area and the interesting characters he meets in the process. As...
- Location(s): Jordan, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
“Exquisitely woven.”–Leila Aboulela Timely and lyrical, The Cry of the Dove is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): 1990s
This “extraordinary story” (Julian Symons) begins with an act of naive voyeurism. Robert Forester, a depressed but fundamentally decent man, liked to watch Jenny through her kitchen window, a harmless palliative, as he saw it, to his lonely life...
- Location(s): China, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1994 / 2002
1994, rural China: Twelve-year-old Chen Di loves and protects her long-awaited little brother, but when she witnesses an unforgettable scene with her aunties and the authorities, everything she thought she knew about her community is ripped away from her....
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
The 1920s most stylish sleuth returns in The Crystal Crypt for another thrilling murder mystery! “But accidents can still happen… Perhaps there was something out of her control, something she couldn’t have foreseen…” “Like someone plotting to kill her?”...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1970-1980s
Inspired by factual events, The Cuban Scar begins when a young New York musician, Nelson Montes, discovers a videotape recording made by his deceased father detailing his participation in the John F. Kennedy assassination, “The greatest unsolved crime of...
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