- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s / WW2
No 13 in the Bernie Gunther series…. 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther’s latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have...
- Location(s): Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. In some of the most vivid, intense and evocative travel writing, and memoir of his...
- Location(s): Greenwich
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Helen has it all… Daniel is the perfect husband. Rory is the perfect brother. Serena is the perfect sister-in-law. And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare. When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class,...
- Location(s): Auckland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Siblings Greta and Valdin have, perhaps, too much in common. They’re flatmates, beholden to the same near-unpronounceable surname, and both make questionable choices when it comes to love. Valdin is in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who left the...
- Location(s): Sayulita
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“A Year in Provence” meets “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” in this lively and entertaining account of a couple’s year building their dream house in Mexico. In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an award-winning article for “AARP” magazine about...
- Location(s): Ceredigion
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1990s
In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters from various parts of Britain find themselves washed up together in a small town on the west coast of Wales, fixed between mountains and sea. Here, they both explore and...
- Location(s): Guernica
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1893 - 1940
Everyone has heard of Guernica, the Basque town that was savagely bombed by the Luftwaffe on 26 April 1937, and most are aware of the famous painting by Picasso which, since the fall of fascism, has been on display...
- Location(s): Oxfordshire, London, Welsh Borders
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I,...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 1900s
An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control and blessed with bright blond hair that signified good...
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Haiti had a tragic history and continues to be on of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Here, however, editor Edwidge Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter...
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