- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived, all poise and perfection. Three decades on, Sunny is settled...
- Location(s): East London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1880's/1890's
When Amelia Spencer finds herself unmarried, pregnant, and cast out by society, she flees to the Bryant & May match factory, searching for her estranged sister, Sadie. But the East End is no refuge – Sadie is trapped in...
- Location(s): England, Hamburg, Paris, Stockholm
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn’t win the school science fair, she’s devastated –...
- Location(s): Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
A Jeeves and Wooster novel At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King’s Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): end of Soviet era
The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (And Other Stories, 2013), from the author’s own traumatic experience...
- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1800s
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command—until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore’s pennant, there to mount an expedition against...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th century
In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider’s web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few...
- Location(s): West London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
A delightfully comic crime thriller bringing together Russian hit-men, M15 spies, the Eurovision song contest and a TV chef. A celebrity agent is hired by a shady Russian billionaire (who is under surveillance by the British Security service) to...
The Mean Hyena: A Folktale from Malawi
- Location(s): Malawi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
In this popular trickster tale from Malawi, Judy Sierra retells the story of how Kamba the tortoise gets his revenge when Fisi, the mean hyena, sticks him between two branches of a tree. Kamba’s solution? Of course, paint all...
- Location(s): Bari
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series and shortlisted for the 2020 STREGA prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award. It is a tense courtroom drama set in Southern Italy, but also a tale about passion and the passage of...
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