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Brushstrokes in Time

Brushstrokes in Time
  • Author(s): Sylvia Vetta
  • 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...

Budapest Noir

Budapest Noir
  • Author(s): Vilmos Kondor
  • 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....

Budapest Romance

Budapest Romance
  • Author(s): Rozsa Gaston
  • 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...

Bull Street

Bull Street
  • Author(s): David Lender
  • 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...

Burke and the Bedouin

Burke and the Bedouin
  • Author(s): Tom Williams
  • 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...

Burke in the Land of Silver

Burke in the Land of Silver
  • Author(s): Tom Williams
  • 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...

Burma Chronicles

Burma Chronicles
  • Author(s): Guy Delisle
  • 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,...

Burma Sahib

Burma Sahib
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • 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...

Burning Embers

Burning Embers
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • 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...

Burnt Shadows

Burnt Shadows
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • 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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