- Location(s): Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Dystopian
- Era(s): Near-future
Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains, safely away from London State. When an old enemy dies, Lina’s...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
This Is Our World, written by Tracey Turner, is a colourful celebration of our planet’s cultural and environmental diversity – an unforgettable journey that brings the people, customs and wildlife of twenty places around the world vividly to life...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides...
- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides...
This is Where the Serpent Lives
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Moving from Pakistan’s sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station. Daniyal...
- Location(s): Nigeria, Atlanta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1905 and 2005
2005 In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others’ memories. In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying...
- Location(s): Italy, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two strangers—generations and oceans apart—have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another. In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the ‘jukebox killer’, was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a...
- Location(s): Harare
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed. Here we...
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