The Ancient Evil Versus the Good Boy
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Horror
- Era(s): Modern
When Jon Riley begins volunteering at the Richter Street Animal Shelter, he hopes it will help bring some purpose to his life. After all, who doesn’t like hanging out with a few dogs after a tough day at work?...
- Location(s): Homs, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012 onwards
Anissa is traumatized by the most brutal conflict of the 21st Century: the Syrian Civil War. In 2012, Islamists in Homs terrorize a Syrian-Christian community and destroy everything that a young woman holds dear. Narrowly escaping death, Anissa restarts...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Varied
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else’s story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
NW is Zadie Smith’s masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – after they’ve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives....
- Location(s): London, Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families...
- Location(s): The Gambia, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance...
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s-90s
This is a hilarious and poignant story of two North London families, headed by Archie and by Archie’s best friend and Samas Iqbal, a Muslim originally from Bengal. An unlikely friendship they served together in the Second World War....
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Amir and his family are among the 3 million Syrian refugees stuck in a situation beyond their control. Amir wants his very young daughter to know the truth about the Syria he knew and the reason they fled, so...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQ+
- Era(s): early 2000s
Jack Christensen has everything he ever wanted. He’s a rising star in US Diplomacy, the youngest man to have been appointed as an Ambassador of the United States. A career diplomat who’s just been sent to a politically interesting...
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