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Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s

You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.’ George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris...

Down Outback Roads

Down Outback Roads
  • Author(s): Alissa Callen
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance

Kree Garrett’s younger brother Seth is all the family she has left, so when he goes missing in the Australian outback, she doesn’t think twice about leaving her American home to find him. When Seth is rescued Kree vows...

Down Under

Down Under
  • Author(s): Bill Bryson
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Downriver

Downriver
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Downriver is constructed as twelve interlocking narratives, in which Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher’s reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what’s left of London’s...

Dreaming in Cuban

Dreaming in Cuban
  • Author(s): Cristina Garcia
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s-1980s

Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980....

Dreaming in Norwegian

Dreaming in Norwegian
  • Author(s): Frankie Valente
  • Location(s): Norway, Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Edvard Christiansen was only fifteen when he joined the Norwegian resistance. He took part in the Shetland Bus operation that helped people escape the Nazi occupation of Norway. Traumatised by his experiences, Edvard moved to Shetland after the war,...

Drown

Drown
  • Author(s): Junot Díaz
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Díaz as one of contemporary fiction’s most exhilarating...

Drumbeats

Drumbeats
  • Author(s): Julia Ibbotson
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Drumbeats is the first novel in a trilogy. It is 1965 and the air is light with the idea of freedom, love and the Beatles, but eighteen year old Jess is feeling stifled by her puritanical religious family background...

Dry Bones in the Valley

Dry Bones in the Valley
  • Author(s): Tom Bouman
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Thriller

When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go...

Dry Season

Dry Season
  • Author(s): Dan Smith
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies Sao Tiago – a small town without a conscience, forsaken by its people and by God – the perfect place for a fallen priest to escape his past. Sam whiles...

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