- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles, a journey of unexpected adventure and profound discovery that...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2023
One chance meeting. A night that changes everything. The Kennedy sisters, Molly, Alex and Sam, have a Christmas tradition – a night out, just the three of them, sisters together. Lewis Stone can’t face the work Christmas party, but...
- Location(s): Tricase Porto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1957 - 1961
Tricase Porto, Puglia, Italy 1957: The summer of innocence Amongst the lemon trees, Rafaella Parisi impatiently waits for the summer visitors to arrive in her small fishing village on the coast of Puglia. She may be dating Fon Gianelli,...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Katy Yocom’s award-winning debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, two families—one human, one tiger—follow parallel journeys in which the powerful drives to connect, love, and raise the next generation play out against the fact of loss and the...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this third volume of Andrey Kurkov’s war diaries, Ukraine’s greatest living writer chronicles the third year of the full-scale invasion from his home in Kyiv and from journeys all over the country – capturing moments of horror, resilience,...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): late 20th century
Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island’s most popular writers, Cheng Ch’ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto...
- Location(s): Newport (R I)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1893
Newport, Rhode Island in the last decades of the nineteenth century was a stunningly beautiful and glamorous playground for the rich during the summer months, and a perfect setting for a romance between a rich young man from New...










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