- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1957 and early 21st century
Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman’s uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn’t gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty, and the only person to...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery? Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault...
- 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...
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