The Coconut Wireless: A Travel Adventure in Search of the Queen of Tonga
- Location(s): Tonga
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
- Era(s): 1996
When Simon and Fiona embark on a quest to track down the Queen of Tonga, they have no idea they’ll end up marooned on a desert island. No idea they’ll encounter an undiscovered tribe, rescue a drowning actress, learn...
- Location(s): Dubrovnik
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1944 and 2010
In 1944 in war-torn Dubrovnik Branko Milisic holds his newborn daughter Safranka and wishes her a better future. But while the Nazis are finally retreating, the arrival of the partisans brings new dangers for Branko, his wife Dragica and...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1885
To believe in her future, she must uncover her past… Birmingham, 1885. Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside her. Haunted by memories of a terrible crime,...
- Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula, Québec
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
When an abandoned lobster trawler is found adrift off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, DS Joaquin Moralès begins a straightforward search for the boat’s missing captain, Angel Roberts – a rare female in a male-dominated world. But Moralès...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
Azzedine Downes moves between cultures, places, and time in this wryly comedic, at times mysterious, and always curious memoir of a lifelong nomad. The best strategy was to drink tea, smile, and enjoy the frustration of not knowing where...
- Location(s): Kerala, South India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900-1977
‘One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!’ Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern...
- Location(s): The Midlands
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice. Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But...
- Location(s): Stellenbosch
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘The undisputed champion of South African crime’ – Wilbur Smith One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
Like many eighteen-year-old boys, Saga’s prime concerns are: listening to music his mum calls “hop-hip”, learning about girls from his suave best mate Ibrahim, and making sure his considerable tummy is well-fed. In his affluent, liberal and relatively protected...
- Location(s): Dudley, West Midlands
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): 1950s and 60s.
The hilarious, fictional adventures of young, Dennis Bisskit. Growing up in Dudley in the 1950s and 60s. Schooldays , his first jobs at a department story and hotel, and finally as a young adult in the army. Fun of...
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