- 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,...
- Location(s): Oman
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Oman. The ancient land of frankincense, wind-swept deserts, craggy mountaintops and turquoise seas. Into this magical nation come three remarkable women, each facing a crossroad in her life. Rachel, an American war photographer, who is struggling to shed the...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
David Grossman’s classic novels See Under: Love and The Book of Intimate Grammar, earned him international acclaim as an author of childhood. The Zig Zag Kid is written in a more optimistic vein, and recounts thirteen-year-old Nonny Feuerberg’s picturesque...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husband, Axel, the zoo’s director. Together, they struggle to look after the animals through the air raids...
- Location(s): Australia, Manhattan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey’s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via...
- Location(s): Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What are we given, and what do we have to take for ourselves? It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people – Karim, Fauzia and Badar – are coming of age, and dreaming of...
- Location(s): Everglades
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1928
Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie, an African-American woman who was raised by her ex-slave grandmother, and who wanted life and living, not riches and sitting idle on a porch. It is a deeply moving...
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