- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool – sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
Penny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has returned home to Santa Barbara to deal with her grandfather, who is being moved into a retirement home by his cruel second wife. Her grandmother, meanwhile,...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
‘That ugly red fungus killed all the wheat for flour, killed all the oat, and sugar cane for sugar and golden syrup, along with all the grass for cows and butter. Killed just about every ingredient that me and...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime
Rome. A city where rules are compromised. And compromise rules. It’s one of the hottest days of the year. Chief Inspector Blume is enjoying a rare solitary lunch in a tranquil corner of Trastevere when an unwelcome phone call...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
After months of planning a romantic holiday getaway in Venice, Paul is blindsided when his five-year marriage suddenly unravels. Fueled by heartbreak, Paul endeavors to take the trip alone. Soon after arriving in Italy, he notices a small, scruffy,...
- Location(s): Qatar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As always Rajakumar gives a inside view of a culture, reflecting the ups and downs of a people who love, hate and are trying to live their daily lives as triumphantly as possible. – Michelle Cornwell Jordan, IndieWriters Review...
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1870s
The Doll is a classic of Polish literature, a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. Yet it is less a novel of ideas than a...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Espionage
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. But it changes the course of their lives forever. They catch nothing except a broken doll that gets tangled in the...
- Location(s): London, Argyll and Bute
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Life looks good for Annie Raymond, now an experienced investigator specialising in insurance fraud. Or rather that’s how she spins it. The truth is not so rosy. As she returns to her native Argyll she has no clue how...
- Location(s): Kentucky, Detroit
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels’s peaceful life in the Kentucky hills is devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted from her backwoods home, she and her family are thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in...
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