Abandoned Cinemas of the World
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
An outstanding photographic report which draws attention to the often dramatic fate of the world’s abandoned heritage and its frequently forgotten beauty. The locations featured all have their own stories to tell, in a variety of voices, but with...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
(Jonglez Photo Books) Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in Germany. The ultimate visual reference in German urban exploration. These outstanding photographic reports aim to draw attention to the often dramatic fate of a country’s abandoned heritage and its...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Modern
An exceptional photographic report of Abandoned Italy. Robin Brinaert has been travelling around Italy for over eight years in search of these abandoned, forbidden places. He highlights the sometimes dramatic fate of our heritage – a serious reflection on...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Modern
An outstanding photographic report that draws attention to the often dramatic fate of Spain’s abandoned heritage and its frequently forgotten beauty. The locations featured all have their own stories to tell, in a variety of voices, but with one...
- Location(s): USSR
- Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in the USSR. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating, coffee-table book. Relics of the Soviet conquest of space, Moscow Pioneer camps, remnants of propaganda...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Recent
ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam’s old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim’s mouth. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But...
- Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, and a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in Père-Lachaise cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close relationship with...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man’s missing birthday in Diana Rosie’s debut novel, Alberto’s Lost Birthday. Alberto is an old man. But he doesn’t know how old – he remembers nothing...
All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise
- Location(s): The Surin Islands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the small island of Surin, near the naval border of Thailand and Myanmar, an indigenous people known as Moken ‘sea gypsies’ struggle to maintain the same timeless existence as their ancestors. As real estate developers, oil exploration and...