- Location(s): Alicante, Madrid, Spain
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
After a failed love affair, Jason Webster heads for Spain, the country that has long enthralled him. He is looking for “Duende”, the state during Flamenco that is part ecstasy, part melancholy, the essence of Spain’s signature art form....
- Location(s): Rosales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th / Early 20th century
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called the first great Filipino novels written in English. Set in the 1880s, Dusk records...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 20th Century
Two murders are investigated by a university lecturer for his own intellectual curiosity, yet what he discovers stirs up all kinds of corruption and malevolence in a Sicilian town.
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Born in the early 1960s and having no direct experience of the Viet Nam War, Edith Shillue arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in September 1993 from her native Massachusetts to begin work as a university lecturer in...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1600s
Sweeping historical novel from Philippa Gregory the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover. Set in the 1600s and seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
This appeared und the original title of Rose of Ruby Street. June 2nd, 1953. The residents of Ruby Street in London’s East End are celebrating the new Queen’s coronation. It’s a day of joy and laughter, a new beginning...
- Location(s): Salinas Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century onwards
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve...
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Short Stories
Prepare to discover a fascinating country: a land buffeted for centuries by power-struggles and revolts, lorded over by Turks, carved up by its neighbours, and subsumed into the Soviet Union. Yet also a land of proud and resilient people,...
- Location(s): Lviv, Vienna
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take...
- Location(s): Bali, India, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Liz’s memoir who- after her marriage breakdown – takes off for a year and goes to mull over her life in three destinations: Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). Italy is about the pleasure of eating, India is about finding...
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