Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin
- Location(s): Benin (Danhomè)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A collection of nineteen folk stories from the Fon people of Benin, about orphans and twins with magical associations, spirits, animals, royalty, and farmers.
- Location(s): Brandenburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mike doesn’t get why people think he’s boring. Sure, he doesn’t have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he’s never invited to parties. But one...
- Location(s): Cornwall, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Regency
Thrilling Regency romance, set against an Outlander-like background of passion and war, this will delight lovers of Poldarkand Bridgerton. 1819: Cornwall and St Petersburg High society England is awash with gossip and scandal. For Lady Hester, it’s just typical...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France’s second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect allegiance...
- Location(s): Isle of Sheppey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Wide Open is set on the Isle of Sheppey, “a strange place, flat and empty like the moon.” On the island is a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is...
- Location(s): Dominica, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1830s
A prequel to Jane Eyre, telling the story of the Creole heiress Antoinette, the “mad woman in the attic”. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to 1990s
- Location(s): London, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Dystopian
- Era(s): 1953
To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year – but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): contemporary
Set in the world of London academia, both past and present, Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heart-breaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again....
- Location(s): Nantucket
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1849
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures. Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to...
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