- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zwei Jungs. Ein geknackter Lada. Eine Reise voller Umwege durch ein unbekanntes Deutschland. Mutter in der Entzugsklinik, Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschäftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die großen Ferien allein am Pool der elterlichen Villa verbringen. Doch dann kreuzt Tschick...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 21st century
Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. It’s about a young person trying to work out who they are, and...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2004
On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Matty and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from 8 to 17, they subsequently faced a harrowing and solitary 200km trek across the...
- Location(s): Chiang Mai
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Ten-year-old Tua—Thai for “peanut”—has everything she needs at home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, except for one thing she’s always wanted: a sister. In the market one day, Tua makes an accidental acquaintance—one with wise, loving eyes, remarkable strength, and...
Tudor Merchant’s House, Pembrokeshire
- Location(s): Pembrokeshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 16th century
Time Travel to Tudor Tenby. Tucked down a narrow, Norman alley in the heart of Tenby, Pembrokeshire lies the town’s oldest unaltered building: Tudor Merchant’s House. It’s a place that transports you back 500 years to when this small,...
- Location(s): Pitlochry
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current time
Founder and sole employee of Mere Accounting, Jeffrey Mere is a solitary man. He has spent his entire life close to home, in the picturesque Scottish town of Pitlochry. After sixty-four years of playing it safe, with retirement looming,...
- Location(s): Europe, Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s, Present day
Waikato-born Judy Williams worked hard for her Big OE: London, Paris, Rome, Gallipoli. Her adventures were dutifully recorded in a diary. A trip journal that also details how the obsessive Tugga Tancred and his Kiwi mates turned Judy’s trip...
Tuk-Tuk to the Road: Two Girls, Three Wheels, 12,500 Miles
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Two girls, three wheels, one mission. If you’ve ever been to Bangkok you’ll have most likely been catapulted through the streets in a tuk tuk, one of the city’s ubiquitous three-wheeled taxis. With white knuckles and ringing ears you’ll...
- Location(s): Vilnius
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
- Era(s): late 20th century
The unnamed narrator of Jurgis Kuncinas’s Tula is our tour guide through the infamous poverty-stricken bohemian quarter of Vilnius known as Uzupis (literally, “beyond the river”), living his life on the fringes of society, including his journeys through various...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1630s
In 1630s’ Holland thousands of people, from the wealthiest merchants to the lowest street traders, were caught up in a frenzy of buying and selling. The object of the speculation was not oil or gold, but the tulip, a...
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