- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It’s there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOOD...
- Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s/2015
The ink shimmered, shifted, stirring awake like blood beneath skin. As Sarajevo teeters on the brink of war, American art conservator, Miri Adler, arrives to research the legendary Sarajevo Haggadah, a medieval manuscript that has withstood centuries of upheaval....
- Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s / 1930s
First published in 1949, Jesse Stuart’s now classic personal account of his 20 years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted & inspired generations of students & teachers. With eloquence & wit, Stuart traces his 20...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Children
Far on the other side of the mountains, next to an enchanted castle, grows a tree with three golden oranges. It is there that the three brothers — Santiago, Tomás, and Matías — must journey if they wish to...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Enzo shoots an illegal migrant from his bedroom one night, it triggers a series of events that embroil old and young, rich and poor, native and foreign. His elderly neighbours Ruth, Diana and Marta are three friends who...
- Location(s): New York State, South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Who is Cate Kay? Cate Kay is the most famous author on the planet. But it’s just a name. Somehow, despite her bestselling novels and the record-breaking film franchise, the writer has remained completely anonymous. Anne Marie Callahan is...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
One of the best-loved Spanish novels of all time, The Three-Cornered Hat is a hilarious tale of lust, intrigue and corrupt authorities set in eighteenth-century Andalusia. When the hideous and lascivious corregidor Don Eugenio takes a fancy to the...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Various
A young couple arrive on the Greek island of Crete and begin prying into the execution of a beautiful English woman during the German occupation sixty years before. They enter a labyrinth of forbidden love, betrayals, murder, greed and...
- Location(s): Barnsley, Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Shane’s Castle Co. Antrim Northern Ireland, one of the locations used to film the hugely popular Game of Thrones series. The filming has finished and indeed the show has ended but one morning a body is found in the...
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