- 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...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case...
Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in small town India
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra travelled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air: brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young...
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The narrator a 33 year old woman who has a gift for languages and works as a translator and proof reader. And both husband and lover have left her. She also finds herself looking after her friend’s disabled son....
- Location(s): Annobón (Pagalu)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
By Night The Mountain Burns recounts the narrator’s childhood on a remote island off the West African coast, living with his mysterious grandfather, several mothers and no fathers. We learn of a dark chapter in the island’s history: a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The entrancing and seductive new novel from the acclaimed author of ECHOES OF WAR A British diplomat living in Venice in the aftermath of WWI, Hugh Thurne is in love with a young Venetian woman when his best friend’s...
- Location(s): France
One day in late summer, Michael Wright gave up his comfortable South London existence and, with only his long-suffering cat for company, set out to begin a new life. His destination was ‘La Folie’, a dilapidated 15th century farmhouse...
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