- Location(s): Pyongyang
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2011
Pyongyang, North Korea, 2011. In a city full of lies one man seeks the truth. In Kim Jong-il s North Korea, Han, a lonely guide to foreign tourists, is rapidly ascending the party ranks and appears to be a...
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The one where Mma Ramotswe meets her hero . . . Mma Ramotswe, normally a peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by dreams of a tall stranger – but she is not quite ready to learn what this vision...
- Location(s): Nebraska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1954
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family...
- Location(s): Welsh Borders
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1922-1940
Ifor is the gardener at Nanagalan, an ancient manor house situated in the Welsh Borders and Ella is the only daughter of the family who owns it. In 1939 Ifor enlists to fight and is one of a small...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
CHELSEA. Nick Guest has just graduated from Oxford and starts rooming at his friend’s parents house. Gerald Fedden M.P, is the head of the household and mixes in the higher echelons of society. Nick is very taken with the...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart’s marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Michael is drawn to his new classmate Mina, but they’re on opposite sides of an issue that’s tearing their town apart. His parents are part of an anti-immigration group, while her family have fled their besieged home in Afghanistan....
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Raj India
In the claustrophobic, mannered world of British India, Linny Ingram seems the perfect society wife: pretty, gracious, subservient. But appearances can be deceptive. Linny Ingram was born Linny Gow, an orphan raised in the gray slums of Liverpool. Sold...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Drama
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
This is one of the best-known plays by Africa’s major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba vilage of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the jewel), ‘a true village belle’ and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty...
- Location(s): Maun, Botswana
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): l995
Emily (16), Travers (10), Angus (9), Maisie (7) and Oakley (1) lived in an idyllic 300-year-old cottage in the Cotswolds. They attended the local school, watched TV and did all the things English middle-class children do. Then, in 1995,...
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