- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and...
- Location(s): Sierra Leone, West Africa
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for...
- Location(s): Ireland, Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s to the present day
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man’s life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in different cities around the world including Singapore, New York and London, Elaine Chiew’s award-winning stories travel into the heart of Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves. In the...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- Location(s): Pottsdown, Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1972
The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find...
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1593 & 2000
New York, 2000 Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, the city glows. It is the first year without a war anywhere. A woman is president, and an air of camaraderie...










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