First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
As a small child Loung Ung enjoyed a carefree childhood in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. But as the Khmer Rouge took over the city in the mid 70s her family fled their...
- Location(s): Hanoi
- Genre(s): Fiction
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and...
- Location(s): South London, Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she’s been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
As he takes you through five of the city’s greatest neighborhoods—Montmartre, Montparnasse, the Marais, and more—Baxter shares pithy anecdotes about his life in France, as well as fascinating knowledge he has gleaned from leading literary tours of the city...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this stunning new novel, the award-winning Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives *A summer...
- Location(s): Nottinghamshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
This is the first in a trilogy featuring Frank Elder. A strong story around the release and subsequent disappearance of a young offender. Elder is drawn into the investigation when repeats of the offenders modus operandi starting happening again,...
- Location(s): Baltic Coast, Russia
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery
- Era(s): 18th Century to WW2 and modern
When Baroness Valtraute von Bruegen’s officer husband’s body is severed in two, she is delighted to find that the lower half has been sewn onto the upper body of the humble local captain Ulste. She conceives a child only...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1937
With everyone onboard harboring dark secrets and at least one person determined to make sure the airship doesn’t make the return trip, Flight of Dreams gives an utterly suspenseful, heart-wrenching explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of...
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
What happens when you can fly, but you just can’t hide?Only Jessica Pearson knows the truth when the press portray her as the woman who betrayed her lover to escape prosecution. But will her new job flying an outback...
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