- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- 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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