- Location(s): Egypt, Israel, Jordan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A journey into the unknown. A rebellion against family, culture and society. A love against all odds. From Scandinavia to the Middle East, a young woman travels to discover herself and finds a world of passion and history, war...
- Location(s): Moab (Utah)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account...
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Oozing with men, money, and Maseratis, Dubai is the ultimate playground for the woman who knows her Louboutins from her Louis Vuittons. But for some, there’s a lot more at stake than a Hermes Birkin. Leila has been in...
Detroit lends itself to noir stories. A set of stories under the editorship of E J Olsen and John C Hocking.
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The former freedom fighter known as ‘Tiny’ has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims...
- Location(s): Dartmoor, The West Country
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2018
Private Detective Kate Marshall 4 THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza. When Private Investigator...
- Location(s): Northern Territory
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
This terrific debut by Adrian Hyland features Emily Tempest, a half-Aborigine woman who returns to the outback village she grew up in to find an old friend murdered. Hyland promises more books, with Tempest becoming a bona fide police...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Second book in a trilogy featuring London streets. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) and professionally (as an artist archivist of London’s streets), Rachel Lichtenstein is uniquely placed to explore the...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1920s
Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl called Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? First published in 1937, Tawfik al-Hakim’s partly...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1800s/Early 1900s
The social history of New Zealand’s gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries.A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the...
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