- 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...
- Location(s): Uzbekistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
When Peter Ivanov finds himself stuck with a $50,000 gambling debt, he decides to do something drastic. He heads to Uzbekistan, a little-known country on the edge of the world. But Yury Popov, a former Red Army captain who...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern
Lissa Wilson has seen more than enough death in her family, so when people start being savagely killed whenever she has a night out in Melbourne with her beautiful new boyfriend, she’s determined to investigate and to make the...
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