- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
A gastro-memoir! And don’t let the cover lead you to believe it is chick-lit, it isn’t!! L’appetito vien mangiando! – Appetite comes while you are eating. Vicky arrives in Tuscany to study the language and culture of Italy, but...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city....
- Location(s): London, South East England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Present back to 1997
HE’S INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A PRINCESS. THE TRUTH COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE. AUGUST 1997: A PRINCESS DIES IN PARIS. NOW, MARC NOVAK MUST FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. When private investigator Marc Novak is hired to investigate...
- Location(s): Greenland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland-and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly...
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