- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Four very different women from one family, united by a loss of self, embark on a quest for happiness that takes them to Singapore, Thailand and beyond. Join Maggie, Beth, Dara and Biggles as they cry, laugh and curse...
- Location(s): North America
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary / 10 years before
THE QUESTION For the last ten years, the small town of West Wilmer has been struggling to answer one question: on the night of the crash that killed his sister, why did it take Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Half a century ago when Mochtar Lubis’s Twilight in Jakarta was secreted out of Indonesia and published in London, it was the first Indonesian novel ever to be published in English translation. The novel, a depiction of social and...
- Location(s): Kent, Sheffield
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
A field of strawberries in Kent and sitting in it are two caravans – one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner’s son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy...
Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness
- Location(s): Seville, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
A bench looking out onto the harbour on the French-Spanish border; a cash-strapped existence strolling the sunbaked streets and promenades of Seville, or the cold embrace of the daily grind back in hometown USA; Granville, cut adrift in Europe,...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Pre WW2
Twopence To Cross The Mersey is the first volume of Helen Forrester’s autobiography. It describes how she and her family (her bankrupted father, her difficult mother and her six siblings) arrive in depression-ridden, pre-World-War-Two Liverpool, in the hope of...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
He’s a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake’s like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he’s watching you now and he’s gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a...
- Location(s): China, Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1990s onwards
Typhoon is a really fast moving and fascinating insight into a side of China that is generally not really well known. The central character is Joe Lennox, who is likeable but not sanctimonious working for the SIS.
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
- Era(s): 62 BE
The city of Rome. The most dangerous place in the Empire. The fates of military heroes Macro and Cato lie in Emperor Nero’s bloody hands . . . AD 62. Under the reckless and tumultuous leadership of Emperor Nero,...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom’s voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this...
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