To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa
- Location(s): Mali, Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Timbuktu: the African city known to legend as a land of scholars, splendor and mystery, a golden age in the Sahara Desert. But to many it is a vaguely recognizable name – a flippant tag for “the most remote...
To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
- Location(s): Mali, Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outsidemagazine, and in his award-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu, he sets out...
Today South London, Tomorrow South London
- Location(s): South London
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
South London-based blog, Deserter, is an alt guide to living and loafing in the wonky wonderland south of the river. Its authors, under their noms de plume Dulwich Raider and Dirty South, record off-beat days out and urban adventures...
- Location(s): Channel Islands, Guernsey
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Guernsey… St Malo… Anew translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A hilarious and heartfelt novel perfect for fans of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Princess Diaries Izumi Tanaka has lived an uneventful seventeen years in her small town, keenly aware of all the ways in...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
‘It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.’ In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast’s wind and cold,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1949/1964/1988
The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1933 forwards
As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Tokyo-ing is a masterful tour de force of a book, combining three short fast-paced novellas into a compassionate and profound look at life and culture in contemporary Japan. Though author Eric Madeen has taken on serious matters — karoshi...
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