- Location(s): Japanese Inland Sea (Seto)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
“Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value.”-Times Literary Supplement. “Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful...
- Location(s): Australia, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and early 19th century
A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world. In the early nineteenth century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water – ‘the inland sea’. He never...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present (c. 2021, when it was published)
At loose ends after a tough few years, a London bookkeeper in her mid-30s embarks on a sad trip to scatter the ashes of her late BFF in the small Vermont town of Tansy Falls. What starts as a...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub – The Tan Hill Inn – located in the bleak landscape of the...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller, Political
- Era(s): Modern
The darkest secret of the U.S. Presidency is about to be revealed. Beecher White, a young archivist for the US government, has always been the keeper of other people’s stories, never a part of the story himself . ....
- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with...
- Location(s): Detroit
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
He had evaded the law for years, but now it’s personal… Detective Joshua Chase’s life-long quest to find the most elusive and violent robber in the United States is about to end. But not in the way he hoped....
- Location(s): Bahrain
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Set in the The Kingdom of Bahrain, in a time when the pace of life was slower, the pages of this extraordinary odyssey are crowded with everything from sex-mad expatriates, a ghost and a mermaid to an encounter with...
- Location(s): Lahore
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
As India hurtles towards Partition, in Lahore’s ancient inside city, Amrau Dar is not thinking about politics. She is waiting for a prediction about her son, Awais, to come true. Awais discovers not a secret garden but a secret...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
DCI Jack Parker 2 The second Newcastle-set police thriller with a twist. DCI Jack Parker fights to hide his Early Onset Dementia while he continues to do the job he loves – investigating crimes and bringing villains to justice....
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