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Swiss Watching

Swiss Watching
  • Author(s): Diccon Bewes
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is a fascinating journey around Europe’s most individual and misunderstood country. From seeking Heidi and finding the best chocolate to reliving a bloody past and exploring an uncertain future, Swiss Watching proves that there is more to Switzerland...

Takeout Sushi

Takeout Sushi
  • Author(s): Christopher Green
  • Location(s): Tokyo, London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness of everyday human interaction. In an innovative, fast-paced company, a man’s job comes under threat...

Talking at Night

Talking at Night
  • Author(s): Claire Daverley
  • Location(s): Montenegro, Norfolk, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another’s great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility...

Tangerine

Tangerine
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The perfect read for fans of Daphne du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith, set in 1950s Morocco, Tangerine is a gripping psychological literary thriller. The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband...

Tasting Sunlight

Tasting Sunlight
  • Author(s): Ewald Arenz
  • Location(s): Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large...

That Girl

That Girl
  • Author(s): Kate Kerrigan
  • Location(s): Chelsea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

You can escape a place. But you can’t escape yourself. Hanna flees the scene of a terrible crime in her native Sligo. If she can just vanish, re-invent herself under a new name, perhaps the police won’t catch up...

The Appian Way

The Appian Way
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): current and 2000 years ago

They say all roads lead to Rome – but some are more important than others. Along 350 miles from Rome to Brindisi, the Appian Way rose from its humble beginnings as a military track to become the engine that...

The Archipelago of Another Life

The Archipelago of Another Life
  • Author(s): Andrei Makine
  • Location(s): Siberia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin’s reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own...

The Artisan’s Star

The Artisan’s Star
  • Author(s): Gabriella Contestabile
  • Location(s): Florence, Grasse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Elio Barati’s perfumery shop in Florence marks its entrance with a mosaic star. This shop immerses Elio in the artisanal world he loves, but he harbors a regret. As a young man he created a full-fledged perfume of jasmine,...

The Association of Small Bombs

The Association of Small Bombs
  • Author(s): Karan Mahajan
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Lae 20th Century

On a hot May day in 1996 a car bomb detonates in a Delhi marketplace. Just a ‘small’ bomb, but it is fatal for two Khurana school boys. Their friend Mansoor survives the blast bearing the physical and psychological...

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