- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A lyrical, captivating and beautiful picture book by Carnegie Medal-winner David Almond, illustrated by Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Levi Pinfold. When a great dam was built by the Kielder Water in Northumberland, the valley below slowly filled with water. But...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The Dance of the Seagull is the fifteenth darkly humorous adventure starring Inspector Montalbano from bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn, sitting on his porch, when his attention is caught by a seagull which falls...
- Location(s): Strasbourg
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1500s
Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and as she is joined by hundreds of others, the authorities...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in the tumultuous days of the mid 1960s, “The Dancer” describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. It also provides readers with a ground-level view of the political turmoil and human tragedy leading...
- Location(s): Chile
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Celebrated for his “ability to place a personal story in the context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and universal” (San Francisco Chronicle), renowned Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta delivers here the story of young Ángel Santiago...
- Location(s): Uzbekistan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
An unflinchingly honest memoir, The Dancer from Khiva is a true story that offers remarkable insights into Central Asian culture through the harrowing experiences of a young girl. In a narrative that flows like a late-night confession, Bibish recounts...
The Dancing Girl and the Turtle
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of The Dancing Girl and the Turtle. Song Anyi is on the road...
The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Pleasure District
- Location(s): Lahore
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with...
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes and sea where birds fly upside down and wild things threaten to...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a warm and pleasant evening in Oxford, gentle city of poets and scholars, rioters outside a hotel full of asylum seekers set a young refugee on fire. The city – the country – convulses in shock. Is this...
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