- Location(s): Zagreb, Pula, Rijeka (formerly Fiume)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Wild Woman is an anti-love story, set against a background of economic hardship. Told through the undiluted language of thought and mania, the twists and turns of internal dialogue are brought alive by a narrator determined to find her...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1925, 2015
1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper’s daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Fast going off the rails and hanging out with the wrong crowd, Brando Yelavich, a plucky 20-year-old from Auckland’s North Shore, decided he needed to change his life. He needed a mission. He was going to walk around New...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if nature fights back? Still in a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea. And, far in the distance, a misty outline. Skelsay. Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be. And now, home....
Wilderness Weekends: Wild adventures in Britain’s rugged corners
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Bed down among some of the most dramatic landscapes in the world and discover your own bolthole in one of Britain’s rugged corners. Wilderness Weekends reveals the 26 best places for wild camping from the south coast of England...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
TRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE BARSLUND Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on famous artist Hugo Rask. The man himself is in the audience, intrigued and clearly delighted by her fascination...
- Location(s): The Aleutian Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
A boat of the army transportation corps fights through the fierce wind of the williwaw, carrying two officers and a chaplain with its crew. Human nature and the elements move the men through their uncertain destiny. This is Gore...
- Location(s): Devon, Lyme Regis
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Regency
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, when Marianne Dashwood marries Colonel Brandon, she puts her heartbreak over dashing scoundrel John Willoughby in the past. Three years later, Willoughby’s return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and exquisite...
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