- Location(s): Guinea-Bissau
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. Ndani leaves her village to seek a...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
It’s a windy, autumn day when a little dog discovers a bright red umbrella in the garden. The umbrella, like a magic carpet, whirls him up into the air and sails him across the world, over continents and oceans,...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The first bomb cracked the Hilton like an egg; the second gutted the lobby of the Marriott; and the third peeled the front off the Grand Hyatt. Three massive explosions, all at American hotels in the heart of the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1944, WW2
A timeless tale of courage, resistance and friendship, The Umbrella Mouse is a heart-stopping adventure drawing on the true stories of animals caught in the conflict of WWII, winner of the 2019 Sainsbury’s Book Prize for Fiction and selected...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Later 1800s
In the autumn of 1886, Elinora Gassbeek, matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage discovers five new babies in most extraordinary circumstances: One in a tin toolbox. One in a coal bucket. One in a picnic hamper. One in a...
The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, present-day
Approaching 80, frail and alone, a remarkable man makes the journey from his sheltered home in England to Berlin to meet his granddaughter. He has six days left to live and must relate his life story before he dies…...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes,...
The Underground Girls Of Kabul
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
An Afghan woman’s life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 19th century
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): late 20th / early 21st centuries
After Kate Mayfield was born, she was taken directly to a funeral home. Her father was an undertaker, and for thirteen years the family resided in a place nearly synonymous with death. A place where the living and the...
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