- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
America Town in post-war Korea is a bad place to end up in: for Sookie and her half sister, Hyun Jin, it’s an even worse place to start out from. Kelller unflinchingly records the sex and war just after...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
In Fragrant Harbour much of the story is told in the words of Tom Stewart, a young Englishman who sails to Hong Kong in the 1930s and ends up spending the rest of his long life there. The voice...
- Location(s): China, South East Asia
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 2000s
We buy food we can point to. We stalk the streets until rush hour and wait for the little hatches to open in the sides of restaurants. From the steamy openings, cooks in overalls sell jiaozi (dumplings) and bowls...
- Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste), Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
It’s December 1975 and seventeen-year-old Francesca is about to find out if that which does not kill her will make her strong. Caught in the crossfire of the Indonesian army’s brutal invasion of East Timor, she escapes with her...
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
The only thing that lasts is love, even when it’s gone. Three French tutors meet at a small café that spills out onto the sunny Parisian backstreet of Rue du Paradis. Nico, Philippe and Chantal meet here every Wednesday...
- Location(s): Freycinet
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Freycinet is about obsessive love and cruel murder in the Tasmanian wilderness, as Ginny O’Byrne experiences disturbing visions of torturous fates for two missing young women. In Freycinet (pronounced Frey-sin-ay), Ginny is simultaneously enchanted but also strangely horrified by...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Germany, 1907 Aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen has rashly married English professor Ernest Weekley. Visiting her sisters in Munich, she is captivated by a city alive with ideas of revolution and free love, and, goaded by sibling rivalry with her...
From Here To Paris – Get Laid Off, Buy a Barge in France, Take It To Paris
- Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France, Paris
The perky young Vice President of Human Resources touched me on the shoulder and said, “Have a nice life.” That moment, standing in the parking lot with my personal possessions in a cardboard box and my severance papers stuffed...
From here, you can’t see Paris
- Location(s): Les Arques
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
A fascinating memoir about life in Les Arques, a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, and its magical restaurant
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