- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
It’s April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, Esther and Kitty – two very different women – are forced to make the same brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai,...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Winner of the Encore Award Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlisted for the IMPAC Prize Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has...
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- Location(s): Hobart
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving―and astonishing―best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying―if her three children would just allow it....
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
The Lizard’s Bite is the fourth in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in Italy. Life was never black and white in Italy. Something about the place both disturbed and interested him. Venice...
- Location(s): The Maine Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nothing much really happens in the north woods, that is, until you mix seaplanes, poachers, game wardens, and strangers in a mystery at the lake. Three generations of the Parker family had grown up in the woods near Maine’s...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times—fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan. Mark Firth is a contractor and home...
- Location(s): Inverness-shire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A marine biologist returns to his home town on the Loch Ness to deal with his estranged father whose been arrested for murder. But really killed the victim? The Loch Ness Monster may be to blame but not everyone...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1950s Dublin. in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered – an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victim’s sister, a newspaper reporter...
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1930s to 2001
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life of her mother, Kamila, in Kamilas own voice. And so we see 1930s Beirut through the eyes of the unschooled but irrepressibly spirited ten-year-old child who...
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