One Month in Tohoku: An Englishwoman’s Memoir on Life after the Japanese Tsunami
- Location(s): Japan, Tōhoku
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
On March 11, 2011, one of the biggest earthquakes in history occurred off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a deadly tsunami that destroyed much of the Tohoku coastline. Driven by a desire to help the people of Tohoku,...
- Location(s): Barles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Over the last few months, Connie’s whole world has fallen apart. Her husband’s run off with an older woman, the magazine she works for has gone bust and she’s having to sell the family home. So when her beloved...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1945
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this...
One of Our Ministers Is Missing
- Location(s): Crete, North London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Another fast-paced and warm-hearted thriller from award-winning writer, and former MP, Alan Johnson. A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air. On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times – but in a dilapidated VDub… that’s got to be plain daft… hasn’t it? I was in my prime, hungry to make a mark on...
- Location(s): Nantucket
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was just one stupid thing that happened… Summer on Nantucket island. Three high school friends drinking warm beer on a rooftop. Everything is cool, until a seemingly innocent game takes a sinister turn, and the course of their...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1927
Britain’s favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and, in five eventful months, changed the world for ever. In the summer of 1927,...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Celia Grey appears to have the perfect life: married to Dominic, the man of her dreams, and living on a glorious, thriving vineyard in the south of France. To celebrate their good fortune, she decides to throw a huge...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to see the sister he has never met, a concert violinist long settled in America. His colourful visit turns his teenage niece Anna’s world upside down, disrupting her cosy existence with his...
- Location(s): Rome, England
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): 2018/2016
Present Letty and Alf are the only English speakers at an Italian class in Rome, where they discover the language that really connects them is dance: Letty’s first love was ballet, while Alf was a junior ballroom champion. They...
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