- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Cornwall
- Genre(s): Time Slip
- Era(s): Medieval / Present
Medieval Tuscany is a world of strict divisions – class, politics, gender, and religion – where everyone is bound to their place. Guidaloste degli Orzotti, a young nobleman from 13th-century Siena, has always felt like an outsider. He avoids...
- Location(s): Paris, Prague, Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1890s
An epicurean book with a vile protagonist, Simonini interwoven with historical threads right up to the beginnings of the Third Reich.
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fear stalks the newly reunified Czechoslovakia, the terror wrought by international terrorism and violent extremists overshadowing the forthcoming fiftieth anniversary of the Prague Spring, and threatening to burn the country in its wake. Into this arena steps Captain Lincoln...
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Gulf War
“A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting”. Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 2013
A sharp, engaging satire that delves into Ukraine’s history. Moscow, 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool to drink vodka and celebrate with Putin. During his rise to power...
- Location(s): England, France, Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1480s
The year is 1483 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John...
- Location(s): Iceland, The Highlands (Iceland)
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY. Kolbeinn has been called to his old home. The new owners uncovered some photos, and a muddied child’s shoe bearing the name ‘Salvor’. A name Kolbeinn doesn’t recognise. Soon after, he hears...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): early 21st century
The price of Memory is a collection of 63 poems. The poems in vivid imagery uncover what happens when the pleasurable thrill of being alive is lost in the pain that settles among the familiar and refuses to say...
The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The extraordinary story of one man’s gift to orphaned children in need of hope Can one person really make a difference in the world? Twesigye Jackson Kaguri defied many naysayers-and his own nagging doubts-and proved that, with a dream...
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