- Location(s): Afghanistan, Peshawar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,” suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman,...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
From a wartime brothel to the intricate high society of 1870s Brussels, Under the Poppy is a breakout novel of childhood friends, a love triangle, puppetmasters, and reluctant spies. Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and...
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel. Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to...
- Location(s): Granada
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day1930s/40s
Amid the vivid beauty of Granada, a woman entrusted with unraveling a family secret will discover the truth about her heritage–and the alluring promise of love… When her beloved grandmother falls ill, Charlotte Kavanagh will do whatever she asks...
- 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....
- 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): 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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