Prague: Belonging in the Modern City
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague’s inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
This takes place mainly in Vienna in the late 1970s, and partly in Salzburg, featuring Colin Grant, who is on the hunt for a specific painting, which he has been instructed to buy at any cost. It brings together...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
In post-9/11 New York, Zou Lei is an illegal immigrant from northwest China. Forced to work fourteen-hour days and live in squalor, she nevertheless embraces the many freedoms her adopted homeland has to offer. Damaged by three tours in...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
No.6 in the Sam Shepherd thriller series. On her first day back from maternity leave, Detective Sam Shephard is thrown straight into a cold-case investigation – the unsolved murder of a highly respected Anglican Priest in Dunedin. The case...
- Location(s): Patmos
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
This book is the same as ‘An Aegean Odyssey’. Set on Patmose, this book is about police procedural, social problems, all set against the background of an ancient culture.
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
Kathy Lette’s first novel, written with her surfie chick friend Gabrielle Carey, when they were eighteen. Written twenty years ago, PUBERTY BLUES is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took Australia by storm and spawned...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1780s
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery Les Innocents in Les Halles in 1785 is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by...
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