- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcée, three rich wives, two tycoons, and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny Wives Like Us. Welcome to the rose-strewn county...
Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
- Location(s): Benin (Danhomè)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 18th century, 19th century
“Wives of the Leopard” explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 16th Century
The greatest literary sensation of recent times – and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal...
- Location(s): Ghana, Cornwall, Mongolia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Three girls born on the same day in wolf light are bound together to protect the world. They can dazzle or destroy. They have wind-song and fire-fury at their fingertips, but their enemies are everywhere. From the bleak steppes...
- Location(s): Värmland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
A Times Crime Club Pick of the Week When there’s a pack on the hunt, nobody’s safe A closed community Rose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, completely cut off from the outside world. Until now. A...
- Location(s): North America
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
A mature man, driving alone from Virginia to the Thousand Islands near the Canadian border, impulsively stops to pick up two hitchhikers, Jenny and Lester, a young woman and her long-haired companion. They have quite some story to tell,...
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But...
- Location(s): Bergen
- Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Varg Veum #19 One dark January night a car drives at high speed towards PI Varg Veum, and comes very close to killing him. Veum is certain this is no accident, following so soon after the deaths of two...
- Location(s): Russia, Pripyat/Chernobyl
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): early 2000s
Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades; now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly Ukrainian peasants . . . This is the eerie and dangerous...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
“The first great Saudi novel.” —The New York Sun Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: “Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the...
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