- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half 20th century
In 1978, during the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian War, 11-year-old Lauren St John moved with her family to Rainbow’s End, and idyllic farm and game reserve on the banks of the Umfuli River. Obsessed with horses, pop...
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
In his novel Rainy Season, Augualusa returns to the present again, following a journalist who is trying to find out what happened to the Angolan poetess and historian Lidia de Carmo Ferreira. What at first seems like a fictive...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Raising Sparks is a magical-realist love story set in Modern Israel. Full of the sounds, scents and flavours of the Middle East, it gives the reader access to the hidden worlds behind the headlines we see. Told by the...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Roe is like any other fifteen year old suburban Chicago teenager. Her only worries are schoolwork, keeping up with her wayward best friend, and whether or not she should sleep with her boyfriend. Then her adoptive father, a locksmith,...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities: when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband of the...
- Location(s): Kansas, London, Surrey
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
A colorful novel of a woman’s self-discovery and family secrets — about moving abroad to finally find her own heart and home. ‘Rapeseed’ is a wonderful coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy, an extraordinary woman, and an American family...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1980s
Petworth is on a cultural exchange visit to Slatka in Eastern Europe and describes the story of his adventures. Much of the humour is based on the use of language, and perfectly caputres life behind the Iron Curtain in...
- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Introducing Inspector Jimmy Perez. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves’ bestselling Shetland series – now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall. A remote community with a killer in their midst . . . On...
- Location(s): Winnipeg
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
Romance, scandal, and tragedy grip the lives of two families and threaten to destroy them both in Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner. Winner of the 2012 Carol Shields Book Award, Ravenscraig, pitches rich against poor in the height of...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1900s
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Azar Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught...
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