- Location(s): London, Oxford, Paris, Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities – Paris, Venice, London and Oxford – when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had...
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite
- Location(s): Pyongyang
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il’s reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her freedom from domestic abuse. To Solomon it was the ultimate betrayal. It’s been ten years since Rebecca’s testimony saw Solomon locked away. Enough time for the nightmares to...
- Location(s): Wivenhoe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Alternate present
“Never thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turning of the tide; its rich, bird-shit stink after a hot day and a couple of pints at the Rose. Or...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcée, three rich wives, two tycoons, and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny Wives Like Us. Welcome to the rose-strewn county...
Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
- Location(s): Benin (Danhomè)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 18th century, 19th century
“Wives of the Leopard” explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 16th Century
The greatest literary sensation of recent times – and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal...
- Location(s): Ghana, Cornwall, Mongolia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Three girls born on the same day in wolf light are bound together to protect the world. They can dazzle or destroy. They have wind-song and fire-fury at their fingertips, but their enemies are everywhere. From the bleak steppes...
- Location(s): Värmland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
A Times Crime Club Pick of the Week When there’s a pack on the hunt, nobody’s safe A closed community Rose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, completely cut off from the outside world. Until now. A...
- Location(s): North America
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
A mature man, driving alone from Virginia to the Thousand Islands near the Canadian border, impulsively stops to pick up two hitchhikers, Jenny and Lester, a young woman and her long-haired companion. They have quite some story to tell,...
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