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Time for Honesty

Time for Honesty
  • Author(s): Mette Barfelt
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Solvik – a seemingly cozy little town on the Norwegian coast. It’s an idyllic place with old, white wooden houses, almost a touch of paradise. However, under the surface lays intrigues, jealousy, and rivalry, threatening to destroy...

Time is a Killer

Time is a Killer
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi, Shaun Whiteside (translator)
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Noir

Summer, 1989. Corsica. Fifteen-year-old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family’s car plunges off a narrow road into a ravine. Twenty-seven years later she returns to the island with her husband and teenage daughter in an attempt to...

Time of White Horses

Time of White Horses
  • Author(s): Ibrahim Nasrallah
  • Location(s): Palestine, Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A rare insight into Jewish Egyptian history After ten years in Paris, Galal returns to Cairo, where he finds a society in transformation. Egypt is Galal’s home, but he feels he no longer belongs there. He is caught between...

Time On My Hands

Time On My Hands
  • Author(s): Giorgio Vasta
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a...

Time Passes

Time Passes
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Yorkshire, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941,1965

It is 1941, and the world is at war. Young Theresa Compton is left devastated after giving up her illegitimate child and joins the Special Operations Executive, an organisation of undercover agents working behind enemy lines. Her mission is...

Time Shelter

Time Shelter
  • Author(s): Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine’s assistant, the...

Time Shifters

Time Shifters
  • Author(s): Shanna Lauffey
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 20-21st century

An ancient people who can move through time or space. . . A secret that never should have been revealed. . . One day in a Los Angeles restaurant, Akalya of the Harekaiian witnesses the capture of several of...

Time Shifters Chronicles

Time Shifters Chronicles
  • Author(s): Shanna Lauffey
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Chicago, Idaho, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 20-21st century

An ancient people who can move through time or space… but not both at the same time. Akalya of the Harekaiian must discover who is behind the hunt for her people, when no one should have known they existed....

Time: Night

Time: Night
  • Author(s): Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Satire
  • Era(s): Soviet era

First published in Russia in 1992, “The Time: Night” is a darkly humorous depiction of the Soviet utopia’s underbelly by one of the most brilliant stylists in contemporary Russian literature. Anna Andrianova is a trite poet and disastrous parent....

Tiny Stations

Tiny Stations
  • Author(s): Dixe Wills
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain’s railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation’s stations are request stops. Take an unassuming...

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