- 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...
- Location(s): Louisiana, Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
The Optimist’s Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother...
- Location(s): Versailles, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
Her ability to see the future may prevent her from living in the present… For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You’ll believe her, because you know she’s...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1877
Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives who arrive...
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