- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention. They...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it,...
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Spike Falconer is in prison on the Isle of Wight – convicted of murder. What made him choose four innocent strangers, a family picnicking, as his victims? Why did he need to kill? Forensic psychologist Karen Taylor comes to...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of ‘stories’ which explore Calcutta,...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set in Afghanistan, British-born Miriam finds her marriage to her Afghan doctor husband heading towards crisis. She has to journey into her past to understand how unresolved issues are damaging her relationship. It is a story of commitment and...
- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
It was meant to be a two-week holiday to celebrate her sister’s birthday, but for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. Arrested at Denpasar airport after marijuana was found in her luggage, she became the victim of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
No one saw it happen. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. Everyone is lying. It’s only...
No Regrets: A Life in Catalonia
- Location(s): Barcelona, Catalonia, Figueres, Gerona, Tarragona
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present
In 1999, at the age of 52, Dvora Treisman flew off with her cat Pumpkin from the San Francisco airport to begin a new life in Barcelona. Since then she has moved to Tarragona, the small fishing village of...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1990s
Grade 4-8. Sipho’s idyllic country life ends when his nurturing grandmother dies and he returns to his mother’s shack. Shocked to discover he now has a stepfather who is brutal and abusive, Sipho lasts for six months before running...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes-fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as...
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