- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman...
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1966 - 1990s
Providing an account of her battle with an abusive man and with bureaucracy, this is the story of a woman’s fight against a violent and tyrannical relationship, and her struggle to reclaim her two daughters, sold into marriage in...
- Location(s): County Limerick
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th/19th Century
When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the...
- Location(s): London, Oxford, Paris, Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities – Paris, Venice, London and Oxford – when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had...
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite
- Location(s): Pyongyang
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il’s reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her freedom from domestic abuse. To Solomon it was the ultimate betrayal. It’s been ten years since Rebecca’s testimony saw Solomon locked away. Enough time for the nightmares to...
- Location(s): Wivenhoe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Alternate present
“Never thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turning of the tide; its rich, bird-shit stink after a hot day and a couple of pints at the Rose. Or...
- 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...
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