The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine
- Location(s): Beirut
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
It’s bustling 1960s Beirut, and our young protagonist spends his days in his father and uncle’s bakery, admiring the female customers, observing the many colourful characters, and listening in on fascinating grown-up conversations about everything from jaundice to the...
- Location(s): Bath, Paris
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise’s own family was distant and disengaged, Emma’s was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together...
- Location(s): Mexico, Mexico City
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched. Like Fuentes’s masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action in this novel begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City. From 1905 to...
- Location(s): Concarneau, Brittany
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 20th century
The story is set in the small seaside town of Concarneau, which is left shaken when a local man is shot dead by a mystery assailant hiding in a deserted house. Fear sweeps through the town, which soon falls...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A corpse – somewhat charred around the edges – has been discovered in the linen closet of the Spencers’ fabulous Maine retreat. No one has a clue as to who she is or how she got there. Certainly not...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Various
November, a dark, rainy Tuesday, late afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1990s/2000s
The novel supposes that in 1940 the American Congress passed the Sitka Settlement Act to allow persecuted Jews of Europe to seek refuge, in Alaska, and that they would access to this land for 60 years. A book redolent...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he...
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
- Location(s): Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930
It is 1930, the midst of the Great Depression. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed Thea Atwell, age fifteen, has been cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes....
- Location(s): Gujarat
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
2002. The communal pogrom that indelibly altered the course of Gujarat. Set in the tense post-riots years, The Youngest Suspect is the story of Adil and, yes, of Gujarat. Adil and seventeen other young men are arrested in Ahmedabad,...
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