- Location(s): Southern Spain
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
If Mills & Boon making A Place in the Sun and casting Ryan Reynolds as the main TV presenter floats your boat, then this riotous, behind-the-scenes, enemies to lovers summer sizzler is definitely for you! He’s a pompous show-off...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Suddenly...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
All it takes to change your life is a single moment. A random stabbing on a London bus leaves a young woman widowed and detached from her previous world. Stripped of a future that should have been hers, she...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
When the moon rises high and the stars twinkle, it is bedtime for the baby animals of the Indian forest. But tonight, when the skies turn dark and the night grows stormy, the little ones can’t sleep. SWISH-SWISH! CRACK-TRACK!...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s - Contemporary
The story that unfolds in Vojnović’s hugely popular Slovenian novel is so gripping, that it is quite easy to forget your real surroundings. A Google search takes Vladan Borojević back to the catastrophic events of 1991, when he first...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Boston, Oahu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Diana is young and uneasy in a new relationship when she leaves America and moves halfway around the world to Tokyo seeking adventure. In Japan she takes a job as a nanny to two-year-old Yuki Yoshimura and sets about...
- Location(s): Bahrain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Khadeeja is a child who is forced into womanhood early. She is compelled to marry a man much older than she through arranged marriage and lives a world of hardships from then on. Her mother dies soon after her...
- Location(s): Zagreb
- Genre(s): Fiction, Noir
- Era(s): Various
astern European history is filled with noir-ish and harrowing tales, and Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia, certainly has its fill. Editor Ivan Srsen has curated a diverse, powerful and dramatic group of stories that offer tremendous insight into...
Zamani: a Haunted Memoir of Tanzania
- Location(s): Tanzania
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1949-2018
Born and brought up in Tanzania, in 1968 I’m at my English boarding school when I get the news that I’m never going home again. It takes me three decades before an invitation to participate in a film festival...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
When a young American research assistant is killed by a man-eating lion, three people are devastated – Jed Banks, an American Special Forces soldier serving in Afghanistan; Professor Christine Wallis, a wildlife researcher in South Africa; and Hassan bin...
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