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Fish Soup

Fish Soup
  • Author(s): Margarita Garcia Robayo, Charlotte Coombe (Translator)
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Uncomfortable family situations, unfortunate health conditions, people on the brink of survival this is what each story in this collection captures, every ripple and every echo that travels from one person to another. With narrative ease and a seductive...

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Fruit of the Drunken Tree
  • Author(s): Ingrid Rojas Contreras
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar’s violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister...

House of Beauty

House of Beauty
  • Author(s): Melba Escobar
  • Location(s): Bogota
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogotá’s exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give...

In At The Kill

In At The Kill
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): Colombia, Italy, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jonas Merrick series. Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear. And their ambition reaches further still. Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine,...

Infinite Country

Infinite Country
  • Author(s): Patricia Engel
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that...

Invisible Fortune: A tale of cryptocurrency

Invisible Fortune: A tale of cryptocurrency
  • Author(s): J Lee Porter, Ed Teja
  • Location(s): Cartagena
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Betrayal for a worthy cause can taste mighty sweet. Henry Miller once said, “One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” When a programmer on an extended vacation in Cartagena, Colombia, lets a...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera
  • Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

(set in a fictional coastal town, probably Cartagena) ‘It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love’ Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless...

Magical Disinformation

Magical Disinformation
  • Author(s): Lachlan Page
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Discover Lachlan Page’s Magical Disinformation: a spy action-thriller with a satirical edge set amongst the Colombian peace process. Described by one reviewer as “Our Man in Havana meets A Clear and Present Danger.” Oliver Jardine is a spy in...

Missionaries

Missionaries
  • Author(s): Phil Klay
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America’s long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet, for them, war still exerts a terrible draw – the noble calling, the camaraderie, the...

No One Writes to the Colonel

No One Writes to the Colonel
  • Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left’ Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty...

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