- 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...
An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
- Location(s): Queensland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where...
An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Current
Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of Filipino family-based oligarchies both derives from and contributes to a weak, corrupt state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Philippine leaders have fused...
- Location(s): Florence, Lancashire, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Food and Drink, Mystery
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something, something you should not have...
- Location(s): Paris, Pondicherry (Puducherry), The Indian Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Historical
- Era(s): 2010 (and 1760)
Part swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in the heart of Paris, An Astronomer in Love is an enchanting tale of adventure, destiny, and the power of love from bestselling author Antoine Laurain....
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour brings unexpected riches;...
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