- Location(s): Jordan, Kuwait, Palestine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy’s clothing and sharing the financial burden of head of the household with her father. Now middle-aged, each night Jihad tells...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part...
- Location(s): Chiang Mai
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1990s
Australian Jayne Keeney works as a PI in Bangkok. Shaken by a serious incident, she heads north to visit her close friend Didier in Chiang Mai, though there’s no relief for her there. Murder is in the air and...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1980s
Thubron cris-crosses the country in the 1980s, describing an eclectic mix of people, lifestyles, places, scenery, history, myth and politics…
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
In Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honour of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a...
Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1818-1820
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
Bella Poldark is the twelfth and final novel in Winston Graham’s sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark. Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the...
Belle de Neige: Tales of Catastrophe, Sex and Squalor from the Alpine Underbelly
- Location(s): Les Trois Vallées (The 3 Valleys)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“People pick the most inopportune times to die; when everything is going along swimmingly and you’re feeling that you really have landed with your arse in the butter recently and isn’t life peachy?” Grief, heartbreak, existential crisis. Life has...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
New South Wales, 1972. Following the death of her beloved Aunt Hilda, widow Clare Barclay inherits Bellevue, an historic property in the Blue Mountains township of Numbulla, Australia. Giving up her teaching job to move to the mountains, Clare...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 978-0857302670
Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn t rattle easily not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist they ve seen her...
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