- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the bestselling author of All the Little Children comes a novel of marriage, betrayal, and murder set in tropical, multicultural Singapore. Amanda Bonham moved halfway around the world to be with the man she loves. Although expat life...
- Location(s): Djibouti
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What I’m about to tell, they’re not simply memories, thoughts drawn from the journal of a trip; it is not only the story of one adventure or the recollection of precious moments. It is rather my attempt to revisit...
- Location(s): Europe, Poland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days. As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The Traitor (The Carnivia Trilogy): 3 He died in the darkness, surrounded by friends. They found him at sunrise, on Venice’s most popular beach. His throat had been cut, his tongue removed. Captain Kat Tapo suspects a Masonic ritualistic...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, she suffers a brain injury and ends up with an unusual but real condition: the ability to only speak the language she learned later in life: Japanese. Isolated...
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur
- Location(s): The Sudan, Darfur
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2003
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me. The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends...
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Moern looking back
Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen...
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