- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A multi-cultural infusion following a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings in downtown Toronto, and the secrets they hide. Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artists and daughter of Vietnamese parents is in love with her best friend Carla, a bi-racial bicycle...
- Location(s): Dartmouth, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Eloise Hamilton is a Londoner born and bred, so it is a momentous day when she reluctantly agrees to uproot to Dartmouth, leaving behind her perfect world so her husband can finally live in his. There are compensations, however....
- Location(s): Tel Aviv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1946
In April, 1946 Evelyn Sert, a 20-year-old East End London hairdresser, sets out for Palestine. “This is my story”, she writes, “Scratch a Jew and you’ve got a story”. Evelyn’s story in Linda Grant’s When I Lived in Modern...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives – at least, that’s how it seems. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with...
When London was Capital of America
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. Yet they live their lives under Japanese occupation. All students must read and write in Japanese and no one can fly the Korean flag. Hardest of all...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW"
Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magical and true to life. When the Elephants Dance introduces us to the incandescent voice of Tess Uriza Holthe, who sets her remarkable first...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Utah
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, When the Emperor Was Divine is the critically acclaimed debut novel by bestselling writer Julie Otsuka – author of The Buddha in the Attic – in which she explores the lives of...
When the Future Comes Too Soon
- Location(s): Ipoh
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Following the death of their matriarch, the lives of Chye Hoon’s family are turned upside down. Now that the British have fled and the Japanese have conquered, their once-benign world changes overnight. Amid the turmoil, Chye Hoon’s daughter-in-law, Mei...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
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