- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1975
‘This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost’. In 1975 Kapuscinski’s employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the...
- Location(s): French Alps
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Bill Bryson on the slopes? Mont St Bernard, fictional, is the setting for this heady book on skis. Boozy nights, random Russians and skiing endeavours all contribute to an entertaining and delightful read of life on the slopes. Full...
- Location(s): Guadeloupe
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
On a plantation in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, a man’s body is found in a pond, riddled with bullets. The victim is Monsieur Calais, a wealthy land-owner; within 24 hours, a suspect is arrested. Anne Marie Laveaud, a...
- Location(s): Paris, Brighton
- Era(s): 20th Century
1911. Aged just fifteen, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown, until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal… 1997. Kendall’s romantic break in...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Children, Mystery
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
The setting is Birmingham Zoo ‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing’ – Daily Mirror...
Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome – 7)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
Rome is divided once again, and Caesar is dead. Lepidus is in Africa, Antony rules the East, Octavian the West, and with it Rome. Two heirs apparent to the throne of Rome. Cleopatra has her eye on Rome too,...
- Location(s): Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): World War I
By the end of World War 1, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service, and over 200 decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance, but were soon confronted...
- Location(s): Athens
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century onwards
This is the story of a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer. Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion-an account of political oppression...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, and realized she had not been to many of the main tourist attractions- the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the World Trade...
- Location(s): Jordan, Petra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra… Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only...
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