This is Where the Serpent Lives
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Moving from Pakistan’s sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station. Daniyal...
- Location(s): Nigeria, Atlanta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1905 and 2005
2005 In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others’ memories. In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying...
- Location(s): Italy, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two strangers—generations and oceans apart—have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another. In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the ‘jukebox killer’, was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a...
- Location(s): Harare
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed. Here we...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feast to conjure and cook An infidelity to investigate A lost soul to set...
- Location(s): East Coast USA, Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Edentells the story of Apple Island: an enclave off the coast of the United States where waves of castaways – in flight from society...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
How do you rebuild a world that seems to be falling apart? Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat or light, no...
- Location(s): Nimes
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Current
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn’t...
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