- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
Brooklyn Heights, the fourth novel by award-winning Egyptian author Miral El-Tahawy, revolves around the character of Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, who emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight year...
- Location(s): Mozambique, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly...
- Location(s): Oslo, Telemark
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Alone and isolated in a vast Scandinavian forest, a therapist begins to read her client’s novel manuscript, only to discover the main character is terrifyingly familiar… You are her therapist. Kristina is a successful therapist in central Oslo....
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
As a journalist for the Independent, Emma Bamford is swept along with the London rat race, lost amongst the egos of Fleet Street. Surrounded by budget cuts and bullies, the thrill of a breaking news story is no longer enough....
- Location(s): Gers
- Genre(s): Fiction, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Vianne, a witch of sorts and her daughter move to provincial France. It is the story of her determination to set up and make a success of a chocolate shop in face of glaring opposition from the local priest....
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
What happens when an adoring young bride is met on the doorstep of her new home by her husband s former mistress? Frank, Rose and Nony are about to find out. It is 1924 and the British rule Malaya....
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1951
Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India’s first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India’s new post-Independence...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
London is the world’s most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the...
- Location(s): Perth
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
Perth, Australia, towards the end of WW2.The Lambs and the Pickles are forced by dint of circumstance to share a run down house on Cloudstreet. Each member has his/her story to tell in lovely rendered detail and everyday experience....
- Location(s): Bergen
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn’t been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she’d turned away a customer...
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