A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
- Location(s): Kashi (Kashgar), London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and Modern
It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent,...
A Lake District Christmas Murder
- Location(s): Glenridding, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Lake District Mysteries Book 14) As Christmas draws nearer, Simmy Henderson is invited to a party in Glenridding at the heart of the Lake District. However, the festivities are overshadowed by two alarming discoveries: a man’s body in the...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image – inspired by a horrific true event – to...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Recent
This book is a collection of writing, which first comprised a newspaper column. Not a guidebook but a guide to New Zealand, informing of the people and the country.
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): mid 1800s onwards
A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. In this, Florida’s favorite novel, Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
This is more than just a book about food. It is a cultural journey, a travel memoir, a look at the national psyche, generally informative and interesting look at Spain the place of food within society.
- Location(s): Diego Garcia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1971 the inhabitants of Diego Garcia, a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a place too small to find on a map and one of the last paradisical outposts of the Empire, were suddenly evicted...
- Location(s): Bremen, Germany, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
No. 3 in the Anatolian Trilogy There are three ways to face life: put up with it, fight or flee.’After eight years in Turkey, Gül leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germany. Reunited with her husband Fuat, she...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, London, Vienna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s 1940s
Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos,...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
The author is sent to work on Spanish Vogue, and stays for much longer. This is a light hearted look at the life he adopts, with plenty of wry and humourous observations about life in the Spanish capital
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