- Location(s): China, Japan, Northeast (Manchuria)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the bodies of eleven and twelve-year-old sisters, Tessa and Megan, are found at the bottom of a ravine—dressed in matching pastel summer outfits, their small bodies broken from the fall—Detective Katie Scott is called to one of the...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A beautiful young woman appears fully dressed in an overflowing bathtub at the Frangipani Hotel in Hanoi. A jaded teenage girl in Houston befriends an older Vietnamese gentleman she discovers naked behind a dumpster. A trucker in Saigon is...
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Married couple, Miranda and David, move out of London into a beautiful country house with an idyllic garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When her post office burns down, postmistress Veronique starts lobbying for its replacement. But her fellow residents of the small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees are too preoccupied to rally to her cause. Mayor Serge Papon, overwhelmed...
- Location(s): London, Singapore
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Present day
From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London. From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, running a glamorous–and successful–fashion company in London,...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The 1930s, and an ageing, badly paid school teacher lives in a small, isolated village at the foot of the Pyrenees. One day he and the rest of the inhabitants stumble upon a short newspaper article about their own...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An Yu’s Braised Pork meets Flaubert’s Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of one woman’s mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China. The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because...
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1978, six Vietnamese refugees were pulled from the sea just off California. In San Diego, a little girl’s matter-of-fact innocence masks the ghostly traumas that still haunt her: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland: the memory of a...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Julio, a writer from Chile and his wife are suffering a bit of a marital crisis. They are offered the chance to stay in a luxurious apartment in Madrid one Summer. Julio begins to fantasize about a beautiful woman...
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