The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): N/A
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden...
- Location(s): Lebanon, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1980s
Scotiabank Giller prize-winner Linden MacIntyre is back with a timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father’s death–a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Chantal, Stuart and their son are the perfect high-profile family. And it’s all built on a lie. A lie told by Chantal. When someone discovers her secret and starts to blackmail her she decides to fight fire with fire....
The Only Gaijin in the Village
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2016
In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the...
The Only Kayak: A Journey Into the Heart of Alaska
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve....
- Location(s): Aden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1965
Fleeing the guilts of his youth, Lieutenant Leslie Deacon has escaped to hide in the army and the vast rock deserts of a scorched and war-ravaged Aden . Adoo rebels hurl grenades from the shadows and a hard-pressed British...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 1950s
The Open Door is a landmark of women’s writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl’s coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Cairngorms
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Currrent
In a mountain resort in the Scottish Highlands, the body of a young woman is found in a loch, carefully arranged. The murder is vaguely reminiscent of a famous painting. Detective Sergeant Scott Hansen is called in to investigate....
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Jasmine Aimaq’s stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl’s tragic death. Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 19th Century onwards
‘A gripping read as well as an important one.’ Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military...
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