- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Mid 1990s
Dervla Murphy’s journal of her cycle tours of South Africa, before, during, and after the transfer of power in 1994, gives a day-by-day view of that momentous period. When she first pedalled across the Limpopo she fancied that she...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The story revolves about a headmistress who arrives to take over a girls high school in a depressed northern town in the nineteen thirties…
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1920s
When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything. Robert’s adventures in the brooding swamplands – from hard labour to imprisonment to thwarted love – are full of courage, danger and heartbreak. This is story...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The body of Stuart Pedrell, a powerful businessman, is found in a Barcelona suburb. He had disappeared on his way to Polynesia in search of the visionary spirit of Paul Gauguin. Who better to find the killer of a...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
A small group of foodies take an ultimate road trip adventure, delving into the pleasures of Spain, the country’s regional cuisine, art, history, and culture, as they’ve never been seen before. Many lovely photos, anecdotes, and over seventy recipes...
- Location(s): London, Guernica, The Basque Country
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1937-1947
“Mother declared herself happy.” A woman’s life has been cast in shadow by her connection to the Spanish Civil War and the Basque child refugees from that war in the late 1930s. We follow Lorna from the days in...
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1937
Warsaw in the late 1930s,the looming menace of Hitler’s Germany on one side and Stalin’s Russia on the other. Colonel Mercier is a French military attache based in Warsaw, and is given the task to discover how, if war...
- Location(s): Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Post World War II
From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring U.S. Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany. When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s and modern
The spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster; the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three men on the beach are digging a hole, covertly watched by a young boy. His intrigue turns...
- Location(s): Abéné
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Khady pulled out a breast and with a deadly aim fired milk at the chameleon. If I don t offer it milk, our son will grow up to look like a lizard, she explained. Clearly I had a lot...
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