- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Arthur Baptiste knows little of Rwanda’s past and is unaware of its emerging troubles. He lives with his parents on a flower plantation where he talks to no one, not even the butterflies he collects, until one day Beni...
- Location(s): County Waterford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
When Stephen Carey, a married lawyer, tries to break his brother’s engagement to Isabel Costello, he unexpectedly falls in love with her himself
- Location(s): Mississippi, Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1954-1964
This exploration of prejudice and what enables and disables change is set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1964 and told from three very different perspectives. To Joan Barnes, 12 years old in the summer...
- Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord,...
- Location(s): Flanders
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Edward Manners – thirty three and disaffected – escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s...
- Location(s): Northern California
- Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
- Era(s): N/A
Twin Peaks meets Welcome to Night Vale in this surreal, supernatural thriller by a Costa-shortlisted author “Gripping, compelling and otherworldly” – DAVID QUANTICK When her twin brother goes missing in Northern California, Vivian Owens follows his trail to the...
- Location(s): The Baltic States
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): contemporary
In this book, over 60 delicious recipes are divided into chapters on Soups; Appetizers, Dumplings and Side Dishes; Fish and Shellfish; Meat Dishes; and Desserts. The many delectable dishes include Zeppelins (the famous Lithuanian dumplings) with crispy bacon and...
The Food of Love Cookery School
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern/16th Century
In the sun-drenched Sicilian hills, four women learn the lessons of a lifetime at the Food of Love Cookery School. In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in...
- Location(s): North America, Australia, South America
- Genre(s): Future, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): mid 21st Century
Civilisation is collapsing. Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, a ‘government of youth’ has taken power in North America, and deemed all those older than a prescribed age responsible for the current state of the world,...
- Location(s): Tucumán Province
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Veronica Rosenthal has retreated to a cousin’s remote cottage in the province of Tucuman, to recuperate from the traumatic events in The Fragility of Bodies. She befriends two female tourists -an Italian and a Norwegian — invites them to...
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