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A Visit from Voltaire

A Visit from Voltaire
  • Author(s): Dinah Lee Kueng
  • 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...

A Woman of Bangkok

A Woman of Bangkok
  • Author(s): Jack Reynolds
  • 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...

A Woman of Note

A Woman of Note
  • Author(s): Carol M Cram
  • 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...

A Work of Beauty

A Work of Beauty
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • 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

Abandoned Churches: Unclaimed Places of Worship
  • Author(s): Francis Meslet
  • 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

Abandoned Cinemas of the World
  • Author(s): Simon Edelstein
  • 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...

Abandoned Italy

Abandoned Italy
  • Author(s): Robin Brinaert
  • 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...

Abandoned Spain

Abandoned Spain
  • Author(s): Fran Lens, Carlos Sanmillan, Paco Quiles
  • 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...

Above the East China Sea

Above the East China Sea
  • 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...

After the Silence

After the Silence
  • Author(s): Jake Woodhouse
  • 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...

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