- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda’s acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a “professional mourner” in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being...
- Location(s): Cape Town, Dunedin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1868
Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiance to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown...
- Location(s): Hokitika, South Island
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 1800s
Love—is it worth its weight in gold? It’s 1866 and the gold rush is on. Left to fend for herself in the wilds of New Zealand’s west coast, Lady Guinevere Stanhope is determined to do whatever it takes to...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner of the CILIP Amnesty Honour 2017. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story...
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia’s two small children. As...
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. Aged 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and...
The House with the Stained-Glass Window
- Location(s): Lviv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
In 1989, Marianna, the beautiful star soprano at the Lviv opera, is shot dead in the street as she leads the Ukrainian citizens in their protest against Soviet power. Only eleven years old at the time, her daughter tells...
- Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2008
War is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified water of their swimming pools, or the rattling of...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
Two women, two very different lives – one perfect solution to a Christmas holiday fraught with potential pitfalls. The Holiday Swap. Florence Cortes has the perfect life – an apartment in the trendiest district of Barcelona, a job she...
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