The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 1)
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Generally modern
The Road Less Taken (Book 1) is a Collection of Unusual Short Stories . . . Theodore Jerome Cohen’s first serious attempt to write a short story for publication was in 1962 while he was working in Antarctica. The...
The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 2)
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern (including WWII)
Theodore Jerome Cohen’s first collection of unusual short stories met with such an unqualified success that he was persuaded to prepare a second set of equally enjoyable stories about the adventure we call “life.” This book continues his penchant...
- Location(s): Cromer, Norfolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970 to current
Janet’s first love arrives out of the blue after thirty years. Those were simpler times for them both. Sunny childhood beach holidays, fish and chips and big copper pennies clunking into one armed bandits. The Wells family has run...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In the aftermath, their problems, both small and large, reveal a deeper understanding of...
- Location(s): Varnhem, Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
- Era(s): 12th century
The hero of this phenomenally successful historical trilogy is Arn Magnusson, born in 1150 to an aristocratic Swedish family. THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM covers his childhood and education at the Cistercian monastry of Varnhem. There he is taught the...
- Location(s): Lichfield
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father’s house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Epistolary, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
At first the vision is grainy―like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When a country is plunged into civil war, two brothers on either side of it are...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Na Ga was always in search of a better life. But now she sits, alone, in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border. Plucked from her wild life as a rural eel-catcher, Na Ga...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend’s wedding in rural Scotland. The playlist is all planned and the snacks are packed. But, not long after setting off, a car slams...
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1880s
Tanios was a child of the mountains of Lebanon in the 1880s when the Egyptian Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British and French plotted with and against each other. Amin Maalouf’s novel, The Rock of Tanios,...
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