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Under The Stars

Under The Stars
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Katherine Dale’s life is in a state of chaos. She has just been made redundant from her job as an accountant and she finds herself with no career, no direction in life and no relationship to fall back on....

Under The Stars

Under The Stars
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th/21st Century

Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher’s glamorous screen persona disguises the trauma of the tragic accident that haunts her...

Under the Tamarind Tree

Under the Tamarind Tree
  • Author(s): Nigar Alam
  • Location(s): India, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century / 2019

A story of love tested to its limits by moral dilemmas, and the beauty and fragility of childhood friendships. 1964 — Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena will lose her home — her parents’ safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors...

Under the Udala Trees

Under the Udala Trees
  • Author(s): Chinelo Okparanta
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven...

Under the Wave at Waimea

Under the Wave at Waimea
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Waimea, Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember ‘It was as if in surfing he was carving his name...

Under Water

Under Water
  • Author(s): Tara Menon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A stunning and deeply moving literary debut of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events. When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman...

Undercard

Undercard
  • Author(s): David Albertyn
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modrne

Set over the course of twenty-four exhilarating hours, Undercard is the story of four childhood friends, now in their early thirties, unexpectedly reunited by a high-profile prizefight in a Las Vegas casino . . . and an even higher-profile...

Undercliff

Undercliff
  • Author(s): Mark Brand
  • Location(s): South London, Branscombe, Sidmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1972

It’s the summer of 1972, and 30-something divorcee Martyn returns to London after some years away. He joins the Olive Grove, a religious community, where he forms a relationship with Amelia. Over time Martyn becomes suspicious of the Olive...

Undercurrent

Undercurrent
  • Author(s): Natasha Carthew
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

There’s a Cornish saying that nothing is left behind in an autumnal tide, the powerful tug between the sun and the equator makes the water surface stronger, and it pulls and builds until we are left with what is...

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
  • Author(s): Haruki Murakami
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1995

In spite of the perpetrators’ intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that...

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