- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Author Elizabeth Pisani spent more than a year travelling around the Indonesian archipelago. She took her time to talk to a huge variety of people – from the many ethnic groups, and religious groups dotted all over the 1000s...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century and early 2000s
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon – private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A....
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweetheartswhose lives and families have been intertwined for years: theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel’s cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the...
- Location(s): Louisiana, New Orleans
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life – the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice’s compulsively readable...
- Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
A novel that will appeal broadly to international readers, Into Hell’s Fire is an espionage thriller set in war-torn Croatia and Bosnia. Daring, dangerous, and dramatic, the story pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction. Lucas Martin, a retired...
- Location(s): North Norway
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Norway’s far north, something unspeakable is surfacing… When a mutilated body rises from the icy waters off the jetty in Kjerringøy, it shocks the quiet coastal village – and stirs something darker beneath. Not long after, a young...
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
‘We’ve left a lot of men in Borneo – know what I mean?’ With their SAS trainer’s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O’Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found...
- Location(s): Wasdale Valley, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Thirty years ago, three school-friends took a walk in the woods. Only two came back – their memories a jumble of hallucinations and twisted visions. There is a chilling reason why nobody looked for the missing girl. Now, disgraced...
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