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The Story of a Brief Marriage

The Story of a Brief Marriage
  • Author(s): Anuk Arudpragasam
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes...

The Story of Ferdinand

The Story of Ferdinand
  • Author(s): Munro Leaf
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? The...

The Story of Lucy Gault

The Story of Lucy Gault
  • Author(s): William Trevor
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love’ Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane...

The Story of My Teeth

The Story of My Teeth
  • Author(s): Valeria Luiselli
  • Location(s): Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Story of the Forest

The Story of the Forest
  • Author(s): Linda Grant
  • Location(s): The Baltic States, Liverpool, Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

It’s 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like...

The Story of the Night

The Story of the Night
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great...

The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker

The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker
  • Author(s): Jessica Courtney-Tickle
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Music

Follow Clara on a magical Christmas adventure in this musical retelling of The Nutcracker ballet – push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Tchaikovsky’s original score. It is Christmas...

The Storyteller

The Storyteller
  • Author(s): Pierre Jarawan
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home in Germany for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to...

The Storyteller by the Sea

The Storyteller by the Sea
  • Author(s): Phyllida Shrimpton
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Melody spends her days scouring the Devon shore for treasures washed up by the sea or left behind in the sand by people who come to her beach. She takes them back to Spindrift, her weathered old house set...

The Storyteller of Casablanca

The Storyteller of Casablanca
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s and 2000s

In this evocative tale from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift, a strange new city offers a young girl hope. Can it also offer a lost soul a second chance? Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi...

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