- Location(s): Goa, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present looking back
A cow looks out to sea, dreaming of a life that involves grass. Jan is also looking out to sea. He’s in Goa, dreaming of the passport-thief who stole his heart (and his passport) forty-six years ago. Back then,...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 17th Century
A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso The new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron From deep in the wilds of the New...
- Location(s): Washington State
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘I got this whole-body feeling . . . it was like a message from future me to present me, telling me that in some way we weren’t just bound to happen, that we had, in some sense, already happened....
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger – his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails. With a week on the road together,...
- Location(s): Philadelphia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Not every story is black and white. Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children, and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is black and Jen is white. And...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper’s The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led...
We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2011
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of...
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of its hero as too fantastic to be taken seriously. But respected historian David A. Howarth confirmed the details of Jan Baalsrud’s riveting...
- Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The invitation arrives out of the blue. In it, Matilda discovers a father she’s never met. Kingsley Cello is a visionary, a reclusive artist. And when he asks her to spend the summer at his seaside home, Hidden Beach,...
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