Yeonnam-dong’s Smiley Laundromat
- Location(s): Seoul, Yeonnam-dong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Yeonnam-dong Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary residents unfold. Situated at the heart of rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, it’s a haven of peace and reflection for many locals. And when a notebook...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in an international high school in Paris, YOU DESERVE NOTHING is told in three voices: that of Will, a charismatic young teacher who brings ideas alive in the classroom in a way that profoundly affects his students: Gilad,...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Elle and Laurie are the last ones standing: they’re single, they’re not having babies any time soon and their weekends aren’t filled with joyful meetings about mortgages. For Elle, this is fine. She likes her independent life, but Laurie...
- Location(s): Australia, Indonesia, Singapore
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): World War 2
Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and...
- Location(s): Firth of Forth
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Rachel is at crisis point. A series of disastrous decisions has left her with no job, no home, and no faith in herself. But an unexpected job offer takes her to a remote Scottish island, and it feels like...
- Location(s): Glasgow, West Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1992
‘Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction and Winner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, Spain In the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid...
- Location(s): Granada
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and 15th Century
Kate Fordham, escaping terrible trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada, the ancient capital of the Moors in Spain, where she is scraping by with an unfulfilling job in a busy bar. One day in the...
- Location(s): Värmland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
TWO BODIES One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who’s really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik? TWO COINS Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man’s eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to...
- Location(s): Hawke's Bay, Napier
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the quiet of a New Zealand winter’s night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He’s fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At...
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