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Amazing Disgrace

Amazing Disgrace
  • Author(s): James Hamilton-Paterson
  • Location(s): London, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, this is the hilarious sequel to Cooking with Fernet Branca. The inimitable Gerald Samper is back, with his musings on the absurdities of modern life and his entertaining...

Amber (Working Girls #4)

Amber (Working Girls #4)
  • Author(s): Heather Burnside
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

NOBODY TO CALL With a mother unfit for purpose and a brother who despises her, working girl Amber can rely on no one but herself – until the meanest pimp in Manchester, Kevin Pike, offers her his protection. Unfortunately,...

Amber Green Takes Manhattan (Amber Green 2)

Amber Green Takes Manhattan (Amber Green 2)
  • Author(s): Rosie Nixon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When her TV producer boyfriend Rob announces that he’s been offered a job in New York, filming with the infamous Angel Wear lingerie models, Amber knows its her perfect chance to take the New York fashion world by storm....

America’s Boy: the Marcoses and the Philippines

America’s Boy: the Marcoses and the Philippines
  • Author(s): James Hamilton-Paterson
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

A re-examination of the rule of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the Philippines and the conditions that gave rise to their leadership. The author argues that they were merely the latest in a long line of corrupt Filipino leaders...

American Assassin

American Assassin
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Six months ago, Mitch Rapp was just an ordinary college student. Then the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack stole the lives of two...

American Dream Machine

American Dream Machine
  • Author(s): Matthew Specktor
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...

Americanah

Americanah
  • Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Location(s): London, Nigeria, North America
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the...

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba
  • Author(s): Heather Murray
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba is a lively account of one person’s discovery of Cuba and Cubans over a decade-long series of visits. Murray falls in love with the country but never stops asking questions as her radius of...

Among Muslims

Among Muslims
  • Author(s): Kathleen Jamie
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Among Muslims is the account of Jamie’s time travelling alone and living among the Shia and Ismaili Muslims in the Northern Areas – the mountainous regions wedged between Afghanistan, India and China and one of the most volatile borderlands...

Among the Russians

Among the Russians
  • Author(s): Colin Thubron
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s

Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity...

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