Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
- Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s/50s
Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
A train stops on the tracks in the middle of the night and a lone woman steps out, following a call from deep in the forest. In these six richly imagined short stories, Andrea Lundgren explores a liminal space...
- Location(s): Greece, Lia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern and Various
Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her ruined ancestral home. But this is not just another...
- Location(s): Norway, Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo, with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian husband. An ex-Marine, he talks often to the ghosts of his past – the friends he lost in the Pacific...
- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and past reflections
The small Tuscan town of Castelluccio is preparing for its annual festival, a spectacular pageant in which a leading role will be taken by the self-exiled English painter Gideon Westfall. A man proudly out of step with modernity, Westfall...
- Location(s): Australia, India, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Dorman family lives a humdrum existence in a surfing suburb of Sydney until they are rocked by upheaval. Change is inevitable, but is it welcome? All that is certain is that each member of the family will have...
- Location(s): Brighton, Munich
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the author’s quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who we’ve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brighton’s social...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him . . . For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role...
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In an idyllic town in the Umbrian hills, young Jake Taylor is studying Italian and hoping to take control of his life. But as he makes new friends and soaks up the language, scenery and cuisine, Jake is about...
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