- 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...
- Location(s): Dover
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The sea has always been Martha’s escape—first from the sadness and strife of her childhood home, then from the drudgery of life as a wife and mother—but she can never quite escape the pull of love and family, despite...
- Location(s): Svalbard, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1937-1938 as well as 1947
THE LAST WHALER is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Children, Mythology
- Era(s): Modern
Book 1 (Last Wild Trilogy) From the winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment,...
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Adventure, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1960s - present day
Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these...
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