- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2004
n December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents’ stories of the...
- Location(s): Essex
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1553
1553. Goldhanger, a tiny fishing village on the Blackwater marshes. Fifteen-year-old Dela’s strange bond with animals has her branded a witch by the locals. Running for her life, with only a rescued dog for a friend, Dela manages to...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): early 21st century
Discover this powerful dark satire from one of Ukraine’s most acclaimed authors. When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kyiv, he discovers an annotated manuscript hidden inside a copy of War and Peace and decides to track down...
The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
- Location(s): Latvia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2 and 1960s
Before World War II, Herbert Cukurs was a famous figure in his small Latvian city, the “Charles Lindbergh of his country.” But by 1945, he was the Butcher of Latvia, a man who murdered some thirty thousand Latvian Jews....
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
It’s the Christmas holidays and Thea is looking forward to spending them with her father. She can tell him all about her plans to become a writer, and maybe he’ll buy her the typewriter she’s been dreaming of. But...
- Location(s): South Sudan, Portland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary,
In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family’s journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finally to Portland, Maine. Here, in the sometimes too close embrace of the...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
What if you were the worst crime your mother ever committed? Dahlia Waller’s childhood memories consist of stuffy cars, seedy motels, and a rootless existence traveling the country with her eccentric mother. Now grown, she desperately wants to distance...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The stunning new standalone, with a chilling edge of psychological suspense, from the No.1 bestselling author of the Will Trent and Grant County series. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family’s survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land – until the famine comes. Half-starved, the...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s, post WW2
Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable – streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high...
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