- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zwei Jungs. Ein geknackter Lada. Eine Reise voller Umwege durch ein unbekanntes Deutschland. Mutter in der Entzugsklinik, Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschäftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die großen Ferien allein am Pool der elterlichen Villa verbringen. Doch dann kreuzt Tschick...
- Location(s): Brandenburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mike doesn’t get why people think he’s boring. Sure, he doesn’t have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he’s never invited to parties. But one...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
London, 1756: In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in the back streets of London, to conjuror’s assistant, to celebrated courtesan...
Monkey: The Journey to the West
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th century
Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the rougish Monkey and...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930
On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe...
The Man with the Compound Eyes
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern
On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile’i is one such boy, but as the strongest swimmer and best sailor, he is...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast, sight unseen. When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move,...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
An inspirational novel of the real-life engineer whose ambitious project to build an electrical grid in Catalonia changed Barcelona forever Xavier Moret illuminates the story of the American engineer Frederick Stark Pearson, an entrepreneur with a global vision, whose...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): various centuries
The Maldives are mainly known as an equatorial tourist paradise to the south of India but some will know the archipelago risks drowning owing to global warming. Far less is known about the people, who have occupied these islands...
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 2000s
A young Chinese woman comes to London to learn English, and learns about love, men, Europe and living amongst the British. She falls for a quasi hippie and the fact it is written in a stilted English adds to...
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