- Location(s): The Sudan, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fortunes begin to change when...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laura and Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions,...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): folktale
When Amos Tutuola’s first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of...
- Location(s): Palma de Mallorca
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
To the outside world, the Palma Foundation is a charitable and benevolent business network formed in the post Franco era by four Mallorcan businessmen. However, with growing suspicion of bribery and corruption, DI Lori Garcia is tasked with investigating...
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Critically acclaimed author Tom Miller reveals the making and marketing of one Panama hat, from the straw fields of Ecuador’s coastal lowland to a hat shop in Southern California. Along the way, the hat becomes a literary device allowing...
The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London
- Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Montreal, Ontario, Toronto
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1864 - 2024
WILL HER STORY CHANGE HISTORY? Alex Campbell is a Canadian musician struggling with a conflicted identity, a tragic past and repressed supernatural abilities. Orphaned at a young age, life was never easy on her and is about to get...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The first in a brand new series from the fevered imagination of the award-winning, bestselling author of MR GUM. Welcome to the last days of Pompeii as you’ve NEVER imagined them before! Join fart-trader Caecilius, his wife, Vesuvius, and...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Someone is killing fairy godmothers in Cinderella… Can Miss Clara Vale crack the case before the clock strikes twelve? 1929, December: Snow is falling, and Miss Clara Vale is wrapped up against the cold as she braves the icy...
- Location(s): United Kingdom, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2015
This is the real life story of Anna McNuff, a British born adventurer who ran nearly two thousand miles across New Zealand in 2015. It is a story of endurance and what she learnt along the way. The book...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Named a best picture book of 2020 by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story by...
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