- 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...
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn’t. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she’s not. She should probably put some curtains up in...
- Location(s): Portland (Oregon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author Renée Watson comes a captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban novel about sisters, friends, and what it means to embrace change. Maya Younger and her identical...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1865
This Side of the River is a novel set in in Georgia in the summer of 1865, after Confederacy has collapsed. A contingent of war widows who have survived Sherman’s March have armed themselves and rallied around a teenage...
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