The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran
- Location(s): Germany, Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1970s-2000s
A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran. 1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world’s leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river’s mouth to its sources. The result is a...
- Location(s): Upper Egypt
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Will an adventure sailing The River Nile turn the tide for Hattie? Hattie Mulberry is exhausted. Worn out from the demands of everyone around her, she’s long overdue a break. So, she decides to take a holiday – the...
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Hannah Webber fears she will never be a mother, but her prayers are finally answered when she gives birth to a son. In an era of high-stakes parenting, nurturing Sam’s intellect becomes Hannah’s life purpose. She invests body and...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read this book’ – Pankaj Mishra The demise of Pakistan – a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam – is regularly predicted....
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
A spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson. Loch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady. Isabel Aird is aghast when...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
- Era(s): Revolutionary America
1773: Massachusetts colony is torn between patriots who want independence from British rule and loyalists who support the King. At the center is the educated and beautiful Abigail Adams-wife of John Adams, a leader of the Sons of Liberty,...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Era(s): 1940s and 1950s
On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, and inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is Number 1. He’s the Number 1 car spotter in his village.The Number 1 car spotter in the world! The start of an exciting new series about the irresistible Number 1, whose hobby is car spotting,...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Carennac
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
THE EVIL WRATH Cambodia, 1978. Amid the Khmer Rouge’s crazed genocide, soldier-of-fortune Jack Elliott is given the impossible task of rescuing a family from the regime. THE PAINFUL TRUTH Eighteen-year-old orphan and budding journalist Lisa Robinson has received the...
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