- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
Shortly after the Soviet Army occupied Estonia in 1940, a boy’s beloved father is arrested and sent to prison in Siberia, never to be seen again by his son. Soon the Germans will roll across the border . ....
- Location(s): Alsace, Cornwall, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breathes in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood...
- Location(s): Key West
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1935
Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labour Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s...
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
- Location(s): Angola, Namibia, South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 21st century
“Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,” writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey through the continent he knows and loves best. Theroux first came to Africa as a twenty-two-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, and...
- Location(s): Anatolia, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
‘What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning… For Nedim Gürsel, the state of exile isn’t a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which...
- Location(s): Illinois
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow’s The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County’s most revered courtroom advocate, Sandy Stern. On the brink of retirement, legendary defence attorney Sandy Stern is persuaded to take...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): early 2000s
Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from life—no doubt because when...
- Location(s): The North East (England), South Tyneside
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1940s and modern day
The majestic Souter Lighthouse stands proudly at the edge of the cliff top surrounded by open grassy empty fields and overlooking a vast blue wilderness. Anna Charles knows nothing of the life that her grandmother once had here. It...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): early 1800s
When her gambling father dies, young Adrienne Castle must find a way to support her family. In desperation, she visits a gaming house in disguise, intent on winning back some of her father’s lost fortune using her skill at...
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
- Location(s): Cairo, Berkeley
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 11th - 21st Century
Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the centuries-old history that binds...
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