- Location(s): Lusaka, Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, an adolescent girl is brutally assaulted. In shock, she cannot speak. Her identity is a mystery. Where did she come from? Was the attack a random street crime or a premeditated act?...
- Location(s): Cameron Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1940s,
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. It’s Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks...
- Location(s): Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
This is the story of the last days of Simon Bolivar who was the liberator of South America (or more acurately Gran Colombia, which comprised present day Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador). He has driven out the Spanish and is...
- Location(s): Geneva, Munich, Zurich
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Pia Sabel plays to win. Until a few weeks ago, she was an international soccer star. But now she’s taken the helm of her billionaire father’s private security company, and she’s playing against a whole new set of opponents...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
What makes a nation happy? Is one country’s sense of happiness the same as another’s? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who’s happy and who isn’t. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren’t,...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1890s
Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition – the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son. The only problem is, he’s dead. After a...
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A haunting tale of love, loss and finding one’s place in the world Widowed artist Annabel returns to Guernsey seeking a fresh start for herself and her young daughter away from her late husband’s controlling family. Seagull Cottage appears...
- Location(s): Oxfordshire
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1970s
Set in present-day Oxfordshire, this novel features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist. Soon the boy makes acquaintance with the eponymous Thomas Kempe, ghost of a...
- Location(s): Cairo, Siwa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Early 2000s
The protagonist is Sudanese, living in Cairo and the subtle aspects of life in that part of the world are effortlessly conveyed by the author. It is Cairo, 2002. Makana and Sindbad are instructed by Magdy Ragab to follow her lawyer...
- Location(s): Florida Keys
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern, 20th century
Nightclub singer Olivia si found murdered, and her sister and the club owner find themselves up to their necks in this tale of revenge. Olivia’s grandfather died in a similar manner decades earlier. Coincidence?
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