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Malayan Spymaster

Malayan Spymaster
  • Author(s): Boris Hembry
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman’s covert Stay...

Malibu Rising

Malibu Rising
  • Author(s): Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Location(s): Malibu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s/80s

Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a...

Man on Wire

Man on Wire
  • Author(s): Philippe Petit
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1974

Philippe Petit chronicles the day day in 1974 when he illegally walked across a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. As early as the late 60s, in France, Petit resolved to carry out this...

Manhattan ’45

Manhattan ’45
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1945

In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this...

Manhattan Down

Manhattan Down
  • Author(s): Michael Cordy
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS JUST SAID GOODNIGHT. On the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to...

Manhattan, When I Was Young

Manhattan, When I Was Young
  • Author(s): Mary Cantwell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Greenwich Village, middle of the twentieth century, an intimate portrait of a young woman as she negotiates her way through work, love and parenthood. Beautifully written and insightful.

Map of the Invisible World

Map of the Invisible World
  • Author(s): Tash Aw
  • Location(s): Indonesia, Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his...

Maralinga

Maralinga
  • Author(s): Judy Nunn
  • Location(s): Maralinga
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided – without its people’s knowledge. In the spring of 1956, British Lieutenant Daniel...

March was made of Yarn

March was made of Yarn
  • Author(s): David Karashima and Elmer Luke (Editors)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2011/2012

Royalties from the sale of this book will go to charities working towards the reconstruction of north-eastern Japan. 11th March 2011. An earthquake occurring off the north-eastern coast of Japan – magnitude 9.0, duration six minutes – unleashed a...

Maribelle’s Shadow

Maribelle’s Shadow
  • Author(s): Susannah Marren
  • Location(s): Palm Beach
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The only thing that spreads faster than gossip in Palm Beach is news of a mysterious death. Maribelle, the eldest of the three Barrows sisters, deserves to be envied. Not only for her plum position as editorial director of...

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