- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): timeless
I thought we’d live here forever … but then, I thought Mum would be here forever too. When Ruby’s dad uproots her from Australia to set up a hotel in the mountains of India, Ruby is devastated. Not only...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It looks like a reunion in paradise. Five businessmen gather on a boat in the Maldives. Agreement on a deal will dramatically increase their wealth. But a dark secret, hidden debt and past rivalry leads to bitter argument. Two...
- Location(s): Cameroon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern looking back
In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved...
- Location(s): Budapest, Dachau, New York City (NYC), Paris, Sopron
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1943, 1956-57, early 1990s
A sweeping tale about lovers separated by circumstance, the lives they each lead, and the various points at which their journeys intersect. Set mostly in Hungary (Sopron and Budapest) with chapters in both Germany (Dachau) and the USA (New...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Post WW1
A STIRRING HISTORICAL ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE VALLEY OF LOST SECRETS. The First World War has ended, but it hasn’t gone away. When Natty has to move to a new village, she meets two young soldiers who...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Frannie O’Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Devastated by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and...
- Location(s): Vienna, England, Germany, Poland, Prague
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): World War Two
Three friends. Two sides. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that...
When Turtles Come Home: A Memoir on Life in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, “There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most...
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