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Tsunami Kids

Tsunami Kids
  • Author(s): Paul Forkan, Rob Forkan
  • 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...

Tua and the Elephant

Tua and the Elephant
  • Author(s): Randal Harris
  • 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

Tudor Merchant’s House, Pembrokeshire
  • Author(s): Amy Feldman
  • 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,...

Tuesday’s Socks

Tuesday’s Socks
  • Author(s): Alison Ragsdale
  • 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,...

Tugga’s Mob

Tugga’s Mob
  • Author(s): Stephen Johnson
  • 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

Tuk-Tuk to the Road: Two Girls, Three Wheels, 12,500 Miles
  • Author(s): Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent, Jo Huxster
  • 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...

Tula

Tula
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Novickas (Translator), Jurgis Kuncinas
  • 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...

Tulipomania

Tulipomania
  • Author(s): Mike Dash
  • 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...

Tunnel of Mirrors

Tunnel of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Ferne Arfin
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 20th century, 1907 to 1928

1907 – Rachel Isaacson, spirited, otherworldly and haunted, is born into a rigidly Old World Family in New York’s Lower East Side. Hungry for independence, Rachel enters a marriage of convenience with violent consequences. Across the Atlantic, storyteller, fiddler...

Tunnel Vision

Tunnel Vision
  • Author(s): Jimmy Thomson
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

This is the second Danny Clay crime “caper” which takes the ex-Army engineer turned TV writer, and his Vietnamese sidekick Zan, to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) where a former army buddy has become embroiled in a property deal...

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