- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
‘Under Fishbone Clouds’ is a love story and family saga interwoven with traditional folktales and stories from ancient Chinese history. Set against the backdrop of dramatic events of recent Chinese political history, we follow the lives of Jinyi and...
- Location(s): The Solomon Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From Jacaranda Book’s groundbreaking #TwentyIn2020 project for Black British writing, comes a stunning adventure story set in the Solomon Islands, Melanesia, by debut novelist Berni Sorga-Milwood. Jack and Toni, childhood schoolmates, set out on a routine boat trip to...
- Location(s): Goa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
In the early hours of November 11th the body of Sandeep Shah is discovered, nestled amongst a pile of coconut husks. Detective Arthur Chupplejeep and Police Officer Pankaj are called to investigate. From their experience this should be a...
Under the Dragon: A Journey Through Burma
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
This book is really a series of life stories. The wrap-around tale, Rory’s quest for an old basket, is merely window-dressing. The real story are the bitterly sad tales – an old woman dreaming of foreign train routes, an...
- Location(s): Hungary
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Tibor Fischer’s hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the revolution of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
London 1957. In a bid to erase her past, Sophie Schofield accepts a wedding proposal from ambitious British diplomat, Lucien Grainger. When he is posted to New Delhi, into the glittering circle of ex-pat society, old wounds begin to...
- Location(s): Bermuda
- Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
Dashing sea captain Nathaniel Morgan sails into the life of prim and proper Bermuda heiress Patience Whitestone and threatens to expose her family secrets–ruinous secrets she wasn’t aware of. The two are immediately at odds when Nathaniel moors his...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It is late summer 2008 and forty-year-old Salinger Nash, who has been plagued since adolescence by a mercurial depression, leaves the north-west London house he shares with girlfriend for his older brother Carson’s home in New Orleans. It is...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter … When you flick off a switch, other forms of light begin to reveal themselves. Artificial light is everywhere. Not only is it damaging to humans and to wildlife, disrupting...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Costa del Sol
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anna’s friends and family think she is living the dream in her beautiful finca under the Spanish sun. But the reality is far from perfect. The handsome, complicated man she was building a life with has left with little...










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