- 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...
- Location(s): Europe, Haiti
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 19th Century
Can a queen without a country still rule people’s hearts? Hayti 1811 As Queen of Hayti, Marie-Louise Christophe rules alongside her husband, the King, in a court of opulence and beauty. But when King Henry is overthrown, Queen Louise...
- Location(s): Australia, London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. An enthralling array of people, places...
- Location(s): Channel Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s, 1970s
Nestled in the bay of St Malo, the Channel Islands claim the unique, if unenviable distinction of being the only part of Britain to have been occupied by a foreign power in hundreds of years. Life in the islands...
- Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Brash hustlers, sinister colonels, resilient refugees, and intrepid radio hosts: meet the future of Congo While poring over dusty photographs of colonial Congo, Ben Rawlence stumbled upon the image of a lost city a glistening metropolis fuelled by tin...
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Late 1700s, early 1800s
Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he carved an extraordinary (though brief)...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s-1960s
Following on from Power of the Sword…In Wilbur Smith’s masterly epic of love, hatred and revenge, the long and deadly enmity between Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney explodes as South Africa herself is swept by the fires...
- Location(s): Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya), Thailand
- Genre(s): Historical, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the Norfolk Regiment who was taken prisoner at the Fall of Singapore...
- Location(s): Galway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
From boyhood to manhood big, gentle Mico had but two passions in life – the sea, and a young girl so terrible lovely-lookin’ it raised your heart to heaven just to see her smile. But with a hideous birthmark...
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