- 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...
Their Footsteps: a collection of travel poems and photographs
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Poetry, Photography
- Era(s): Current
Kassie was born and raised in the heart of America… Iowa. Growing up she grew a great love of adventure and travel. It started with the written word by following the footsteps of each rebel, traveler, hobbit, and adventurer...
- Location(s): The Midlands
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Some lies won’t stay buried forever… Cherie sees the anger on her husband’s face. She’s late home from work. Again. He’s always like this when she doesn’t call, and she’s scared he wouldn’t believe her even if she could...
- Location(s): Detroit
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s to 1967
Joyce Carol Oates’ Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of...
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