Quiet Corners of Paris: Unexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards, Hidden Gardens
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Quiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-century passages, serene gardens, and cobblestone courtyards. Some of the places have breathtaking views, others are filled with...
RAINY DAY RAMEN and the COSMIC PACHINKO
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): 2010
A delightfully debauched, spiritual quest through a hallucinatory Japan of cursed gaijin houses, seedy hostess bars, a Beatles-themed McDonalds, mysterious internet cafe denizens, and one seriously pissed off cat. After three years in Japan, Fred Buchanan is broke, unemployed...
- Location(s): Scarborough
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics. Dinah...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops...
Read the World: A Country-By-Country Guide to the Best Books on Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Miscellaneous
- Era(s): Various
Read your way across the world – and get to know it better. READ THE WORLD recommends the best three books on more than 50 countries, taking readers on a trip through Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin...
- Location(s): Auckland
- Genre(s): Thriller, Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
The City looks away … but someone is watching… A killer is hunting Auckland’s homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people. Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland – among the...
- Location(s): Angola, South Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu’s newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the...
- Location(s): Borgarnes
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
An atmospheric, moving, and droll coming-of-age story about a young man’s transformative year on his family’s struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he falls in love, discovers a fondness for farming, and yearns to connect with his stoic father, who...
- Location(s): Lyme Regis
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye… From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness....
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Recent
(Packing for Greece travel series) When a long-forgotten, apartheid-era arrest record derails Sally’s plans for a Canadian family holiday, she packs her mum’s 1978 travel diary and sets out solo for Greece instead. As she journeys to the landmarks...
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