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Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo
  • Author(s): Zlata Filipovic
  • Location(s): Sarajevo
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s and 1990s

The child’s diary that awakened the conscience of the world. When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for...

Zoffany’s daughter: love and treachery on a small island

Zoffany’s daughter: love and treachery on a small island
  • Author(s): Stephen Foster
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1820s

‘I am only obeying the law that Nature has engraved indelibly in the heart of a mother, to never be separated from her child.’ 2nd July 1825: Cecilia Zoffany, daughter of a famous artist, flees to the island of...

Zoo Station

Zoo Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1939

Englishman John Russell is a member of the foreign press corps in Berlin and a first-hand witness to the brutal machinations of Hitler and the Nazi party in the build-up to war during the early months of 1939. When...

Zorba’s Parthenon: A Taverna by the Sea

Zorba’s Parthenon: A Taverna by the Sea
  • Author(s): Peter Barber
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): modern day

Part memoir, part comic fiction, Zorba’s Parthenon is a sunlit story of food, friendship, and the joyful unruliness of Greek island life In the sleepy fishing village of Telios, the wine flows freely, the gossip flows faster, and there’s...

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  • Author(s): Jon Eschsri
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Facing the loss of his job, Dr. Callum Chamberlain, Lecturer in Icelandic Language and Literature at one of England’s premier universities, meets and falls for fellow scholar Antonia and agrees to her scheme to search for a lost Icelandic...

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