- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Cultural Revolution of China
“This is the book I struggled not to write. I buried the pain along with my Chinese name and changed my fate.” This is a fictional memoir by Chinese artist, Little Winter, who tries to re-establish the bond with...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
Set in Budapest 1936. The author brings Budapest to life, in similar vein to Philip Kerr’s Berlin based Bernie Gunther novels. Zsigmond Gordon is a crime journalist with a local newspaper who follows up the murder of a young woman....
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Kati Dunai travels to Budapest to settle her father’s estate, the last thing on her mind is the pursuit of pleasure. She’s a busy international conference planner, her life rooted in Manhattan. But from the moment she sets...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Bull Street is the story of Richard Blum, a naïve, young Wall Streeter who gives a jaded billionaire the chance for redemption, as they team up to bring down an insider trading ring before they wind up in jail...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Spy thriller based around Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798. From Amazon: 1798. James Burke, British spy, is in Egypt. His task: to investigate the rumour that Napoleon is planning an invasion. It turns out that the French are coming...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
In 1806 the British invaded in Buenos Aires. What were they doing there? Who was the British spy involved in the plot? And what happened afterwards? ‘Burke in the Land of Silver’ is based on the adventures of real-life...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Guy Delisle’s newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers,...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
There is a short period in everyone’s life when his character is fixed forever . . . ‘ George Orwell Eric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1970s
Coral Sinclair is a beautiful but naive twenty-five-year-old photographer who has just lost her father. She’s leaving the life she’s known and traveling to Kenya to take ownership of her inheritance–the plantation that was her childhood home–Mpingo. On the...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1947 to 2001
‘Burnt Shadows’ is set in three periods, 1947, 1983, 2001 and in several countries – Japan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and New York – although others feature also.It is the story of the interconnections between the members of two families against...










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