- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): AD 216 - AD 274
This is the story of Mani, a forgotten figure, but whose name is yet, paradoxically, on everyone’s lips. When using the words “Manichean” or “Manichaeism” one rarely thinks Mani, painter, doctor and Eastern philosopher of the third century, called...
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar but it’s too big, too eccentric, and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket,...
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Love makes you do things you never thought you were capable of.’ Margo and Richard’s love affair was the stuff legends are made of – forbidden, passionate, all-encompassing. But ultimately, doomed. When Richard walked out, Margo shut herself away...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
The author is living and studying in Cambodia with his kmer partner and daughter when he and two colleagues are captured by the Khmer Rouge. They are taken deep into the jungle, held on suspicion that they are CIA....
The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
- Location(s): Sahara, Mali
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1788
London, 1788: a group of British gentlemen—geographers, scholars, politicians, humanitarians, and traders—decide it is time to solve the mysteries of Africa’s unknown interior regions. Inspired by the Enlightenment quest for knowledge, they consider it a slur on the age...
- Location(s): Athens
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 490-480 BC
Book One in the Athenian series A STATESMAN IS BORN, NOT MADE . . . Marathon. A Persian king stands at last on Greek soil. His Immortals have come to raze the cities of the west. The Athenians are...
- Location(s): Texas, San Antonio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1830s
It’s 1836, and the Mexican province of Texas is in revolt. As General Santa Anna’s forces move closer to the small fort that will soon be legend, three people’s fates will become intrinsically tied to the coming battle: Edmund...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Westcoast transplant Samantha Richardson has settled into New Orleans. With a budding romance, potential career change, and newfound family, she feels at home in the French Quarter. Sammy is drawn into the history of the city’s famous Voodoo queen...
- Location(s): Isle of Barra
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
What if love is right there, waiting for the opening? On the Hebridean island of Barra, young single mum Catriona Griffin is doing everything she can to keep her family farm alive. Life is hard, the weather unforgiving, and...
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