Bertie Plays the Blues (#7 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are...
- Location(s): Bethnal Green, London, Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Penang, 1971. When Suyin is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a place as a trainee nurse in London’s Bethnal Green hospital – she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Cape Colony is proving a tiresome assignment for Captain Kydd’s daring commander-in-chief Commodore Popham. Rumours that South America’s Spanish colonies are in a ferment of popular unrest and of a treasure hoard of silver spur him to assemble a...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1950s
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- Location(s): Bhutan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Jamie Zeppa made a life-altering decision at the age of 24 when she left an academic career to join a two-year teaching programme for young Canadians in Bhutan. Bhutan is a notoriously difficult country to visit as a tourist,...
- Location(s): Big Sur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to ‘get away to solitude again or die’, so he withdrew to a cabin...
- Location(s): Fethiye, Kayaköy (Kayakoy)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia – a town in which...
- Location(s): France, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910-1970
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
The last time Silas Ali encountered the Lieutenant, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the Lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Lydia, his wife. When Silas sees him again, by chance, twenty years...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Marina is a gentle soul who makes a modest living in her corner shop in a tiny Greek village. Her husband died years ago, and her children have grown up. She is surrounded by people she grew up with...
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