Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold
- Location(s): Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various
Timbuktu—the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Like children everywhere, Miyuki’s imagination peaks at bedtime, when she remembers all the things she has to do before she can possibly go to bed: she needs to water the vegetables, gather snails, and prepare for the arrival of...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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