The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction
One of the greatest books ever written. It was made into a movie by the same name, which in turn is regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made. First published in 1935, The Treasure of the Sierra...
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
What if a forgotten map leads to death? A thrilling, high-stakes adventure awaits in The Treasure of Tundavala Gap. When Mateus, a quiet PhD student, stumbles upon a cryptic map and wartime letters left by his grandfather, his life...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Melody Meeks is a struggling freelance writer at Zenith magazine when a chance encounter on Facebook brings her back in touch with her first love, the love she never really got over: Spencer Channing. But little does she know...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Revolutionary
The tree of liberty sprouted well before the Revolution started… Abe is haunted by the sudden loss of both of his parents. Left to manage a New-Hampshire time grant with only his eccentric aunt to guide him, he finds...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife...
- Location(s): Tanzania
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1972
A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940 - 2000
A diary recounting four decades’ worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river–the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, looking back
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 2014
‘Jo Spain is a sublime storyteller . . . this is a book you won’t want to put down’ JANE CASEY 2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1880s
The year is 1880, the setting London’s poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London’s dark streets, the sense of time and place...
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