- Location(s): United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
For most people, being a single mother to three boys (two of them teenagers), sorting out your feelings for an ex-boyfriend who’s now an international film star, pacifying an elderly father who keeps asking why you’re not married, tolerating...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On a night-time walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, besides which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him...
The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1986
A rock chick. An artist with attitude. A girl with a past. A party animal. Four lives collide when one of the world’s most famous paintings is stolen. It’s a mystery that has the nation talking, but while Picasso’s...
- Location(s): Harare
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Vimbai is the star hairdresser of her salon, the smartest in Harare, Zimbabwe, until the enigmatic Dumisani appears. Losing many of her best customers to this good-looking, smooth-talking young man, Vimbai fears for her job, vital if she’s to...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
There are two sides to every story – and every marriage in crisis . . . Malcolm, bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar, and when his boss finally retires, he seizes his chance....
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at...
- Location(s): Granada
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1564
Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose… 1564, the Kingdom of Granada. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms and daub the white houses of Sierra Nevada with the blood of...
- Location(s): Montevideo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The attempted robbery of the armoured car in the back streets of Montevideo is a miserable failure. A lucky break for the intrepid Ursula Lopez who manages to snatch all the loot, more hindered than helped by her faint-hearted...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and 19th Century
“I feel terrible. Although he doesn’t say it, I know he had been hoping the whole time that I would explain it all somehow: but I can’t explain it, because I don’t understand anything.” These disturbing words, almost a...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman...
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