- Location(s): Baltimore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting...
- Location(s): Tel Aviv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity...
- Location(s): The Hague (Den Haag)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary.
A world of terrorism, murder and a love story set in a present day multicultural Europe. The three young women in the story come from very different backgrounds, and for them, life throws up added complications. What do you...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed...
- Location(s): Mali
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Even if Trouble is staring you in the face, be good to people. Dance. When David and Asifa said yes to serving with the Peace Corps in Mali, little did they know they were stepping onto a rollercoaster that...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to...
- Location(s): The Thames
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th century
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a ‘T’. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie...
- Location(s): Ladakh
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modernn
‘Let’s go for a ride!’ This was the clarion call for Royal Enfield riders, but where should we go? Bharathi (the wife) – She Who Must Be Obeyed – sneers at our puny destination plans and orders us to...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after twenty years of absence to mourn his two friends- two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised “”the three musketeers.”” These young men signed...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
THREE WOMEN. ONE SECRET. AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY. Zoe always knew this day would come. After all, no one can live for ever. She may not be ready, but Zoe knows the importance of goodbye – and how much it...
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