- Location(s): Pattaya
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Inside a secluded, lush estatelocated on the edge of Pattaya, an eccentric English-man’s gardener is found hanged. Calvino has been hired to investigate. Calvino finds himself pulled deep into the shadows of the war against drugs, into Code Orange...
- Location(s): Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
Sandra Hoffmann‘s Paula is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann...
Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
Fictional Lansquenet, in south-west France, is once again the setting for this novel, no. 3 in the Chocolat series. Vianne Rocher receives an unexpected letter from her old friend Armande Voizin, asking her to return to Lansquenet,so Vianne leaves...
- Location(s): Nicaragua
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
On the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua in 1926, U.S. expatriates manage fruit plantations, timber companies, and gold mines. When a stunning local woman named Dorette Fox entangles herself with two Americans, the desultory love triangle combined with an escalating...
- Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1919
‘Put me to work on the pit lane, would you? Is that all you think I’m worth?’ When her mother dies in childbirth, Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt, Annie Grafton. Annie loves Pearl like...
- Location(s): Hydra
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 1950s
In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing, away from...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Catherine McNamara s stories take the reader on a pulsing, eloquent journey through post-colonial migration, and loss and decline in Europe. She deals with dirty family secrets, the stealth of AIDS, misunderstood gay love and neglected children. In her...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 2013
The sight of subway commuters with their noses buried in books is one that transcends iPods, Angry Birds and any number of technological and cultural advances. It’s only appropriate, then, that Penguin has teamed with Transport for London to...
- Location(s): The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 2019
When you sell your soul, the devil gives no refunds… When an old man is burned alive in a sleepy ex-mining village, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is called in to investigate. He soon discovers that, beneath the facade of...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): mid 200s onwards
A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman
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