- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Ouagadougou
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
With a global perspective, Babnik takes on the themes of racism, the role of women in modern society and the loneliness of the human condition. Dry Season is a record of an unusual love affair. Anna is a 62-year-old...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
An anthology of stories, erring toward the noir set in Dublin, under the editorship of Ken Bruen
- 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...
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