- Location(s): Bordeaux, South West France, The Gironde Estuary
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
CORRUPTION, BETRAYAL, MURDER and REDEMPTION as Capitaine Celestine Courbet fights for justice against those closest to her; the Bordeaux Police Force; and the ruthless, deadly Vietnamese mob. The story races from the backstreets and ancient cemetery of old Bordeaux...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap...
- Location(s): Burundi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The book is a novel on the problems of refugees from Burundi. Kigeme, a Burundian secondary school girl, must flee to Wirodi for her safety, due to the outbreak of the Hutu- Tutsi war in Burundi. On her way...
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
- Location(s): Weimar
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1919-1939
From bestselling historian Katja Hoyer comes a gripping story of life during the rise and reign of Hitler through the eyes of the people of Weimar *One of the most anticipated books of 2026 according to the Sunday Times,...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big,...
- Location(s): South Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sail to the tropical paradise where secrets don’t stay hidden for long … Zoologist Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny, remote island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin tortoises in the...
- Location(s): Nigeria, Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): contemporary
Welcome to Nowhere is a powerful and beautifully written story about the life of one family caught up in civil war by the award-winning author Elizabeth Laird, shortlisted for the Scottish Teen Book Award and winner of the UKLA...
- Location(s): Hillbrow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Recent
Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow – microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rosie Riley is nervously excited about meeting the Fraser family. She’s head-over-heels for her boyfriend Theo and she hopes that spending a fortnight with the Frasers at their luxury Tuscan villa is a good sign of where their relationship...
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