- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for...
- Location(s): California, Saurashtra
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century, Early 21st
In a lyrical memoir spiced with mouth-watering Indian recipes and old family photographs, Mira Kamdar takes us back to the ancient world into which her grandmother was born: a tiny village in Kathiawar, India. Kamdar traces the Indian diaspora,...
- Location(s): China, Europe, Nepal
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the...
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
- Location(s): Belize
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Riley James has grown up with with an alcoholic mother and hustler father who was rarely home. Riley, knowing his way around the rainforest, the backroads, the little known coastal areas of Belize is perfect for an op that...
- Location(s): Almería (Almeria), Costa del Sol
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘I’m looking forward to seeing you and Laura and getting my first taste of “abroad”.’ Eamonn Lynch stares at the letter announcing the imminent arrival of his father, Dermot. His first thought is: I’ll make an excuse, I’ll put...
- Location(s): Bougainville Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A young girl is caught up in civil unrest on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. Everyone who can, flees. Remaining is the only white man, who sets about teaching the children left on the island, and the only material...
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Jack and Sadie Rosenblum come to England from Germany in the 1930s. He wants to integrate and follows the advice in the leaflet he receives on arrival. Sadie, however, does not want to integrate and misses her life in...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern back to 1970s
In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for...
- Location(s): Visakhapatnam (Vizag)
- Genre(s): Fiction
Mrs Ali’s much loved home is suddenly under threat – a road widening scheme threatens to destroy both it and the family business, the Marriage Bureau for Rich People. Meanwhile, Mrs Ali’s niece, Pari, a young Muslim widow, adopts...
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