- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood‘s young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in...
- Location(s): East Lothian, North Berwick
- Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
Tom and Beth are not happy when they move to North Berwick and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that’s falling to pieces and a school full of strangers. When they meet Professor Macblain, with his...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A toxic family … a fight for survival… Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Emilia has it all: a rewarding career as a statistician, a wonderful husband, and two healthy young sons. Having escaped Amsterdam for a life in the countryside, she and Bruch pass their time performing endless jobs around the house....
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
The story takes place on the Coast of Australia, a small town which is dominated by its sawmill and little else. Two teenagers, bored by their lives, become friends with an older man, who is, in fact a world-class...
Breathless: An American Girl in Paris
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. “Breathless” is the story of a girl who represents those...
- Location(s): Seoul
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 20th Century
When Soah’s impoverished, desperate village decides to sacrifice her to the Water God Habaek to end a long drought, they believe that drowning one beautiful girl will save their entire community and bring much-needed rain. Not only is Soah...
Bridges of Venice Walking Tours
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This book provides a way to explore Venice, Italy in a manner never before available. The book divides the bridges of Venice into 27 tours. Each tour provides detailed, step-by-step instructions of how to walk from one bridge to...
- Location(s): Saint Gervais
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A retreat doesn’t always mean safety… Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running...
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