- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): 2000s
When an American mother-of-three finds herself overwhelmed in her new home in Switzerland, a visitor pops up offering to cure her son’s asthma, her husband’s growing indifference, and her own resentment of life. Is he the village nutter or...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set against a beautifully observed Thailand of the 1950s, this is the story of a young Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai, who all Bangkok knows as The White Leopard. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one...
- Location(s): Paris, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1827-1838
Virtuoso pianist Isabette Grüber captivates audiences in the salons and concert halls of early nineteenth-century Vienna. Yet in a profession dominated by men, Isabette longs to compose and play her own music—a secret she keeps from both her lascivious...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
“I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day – traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade...
Abandoned Churches: Unclaimed Places of Worship
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): 2012 - 2019
Between 2012 and 2019 Francis Meslet photographed several hundred places of worship across Europe. Over time, these places have became enveloped in silence, the only thing heard there now an occasional gust of wind whistling though broken stained glass,...
Abandoned Cinemas of the World
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
An outstanding photographic report which draws attention to the often dramatic fate of the world’s abandoned heritage and its frequently forgotten beauty. The locations featured all have their own stories to tell, in a variety of voices, but with...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Modern
An exceptional photographic report of Abandoned Italy. Robin Brinaert has been travelling around Italy for over eight years in search of these abandoned, forbidden places. He highlights the sometimes dramatic fate of our heritage – a serious reflection on...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Modern
An outstanding photographic report that draws attention to the often dramatic fate of Spain’s abandoned heritage and its frequently forgotten beauty. The locations featured all have their own stories to tell, in a variety of voices, but with one...
- Location(s): Okinawa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 and modern
In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam’s old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim’s mouth. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But...