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No Shitting In The Toilet

No Shitting In The Toilet
  • Author(s): Peter Moore
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

No Shitting In The Toilet is named after a sign Peter Moore saw on the door of the lavatory at Jack’s Café in Dali, Yunnan Province, in China. It’s a sign that encapsulated his travel philosophy: that things never quite...

Om Shanti, Babe

Om Shanti, Babe
  • Author(s): Helen Limon
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassia can’t wait for her first visit to India – Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves…. But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected… Cass is with her mum in...

Patasana

Patasana
  • Author(s): Ahmet Ümit
  • Location(s): Anatolia, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 2700 years ago

This is the German version of this book. Patasana was the son and grandson of a palace scribe, who wrote his story and that of his father and grandfather onto tablets that were then sealed and are now being...

Phantom

Phantom
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

THE MURDER HAS BEEN SOLVED. BUT HAS JUSTICE BEEN DONE? Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He’s been away for some time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case that brings him back...

Pollak’s Arm

Pollak’s Arm
  • Author(s): Hans von Trotha, Elisabeth Lauffer (Translator)
  • Location(s): Lazio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943

October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city’s Jewish population the next day, Monsignor M dispatches an envoy to a nearby palazzo to bring...

Sacred Ends (#2 Belle Epoque Trilogy)

Sacred Ends (#2 Belle Epoque Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Lisa Appignanesi
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1890s

Paris, 1890. Comte de Landois has ordered his wife Marguerite to travel from Paris, to join him in the Loire valley. Her journey into the pastoral quiet is shattered by the appearance of a dead man on the railway...

Sightseeing

Sightseeing
  • Author(s): Rattawut Lapcharoensap
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Subtle and profound comment on the nature of East meets West.

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion
  • Author(s): Ken Kesey
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Sailor Song” is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber...

Survivor

Survivor
  • Author(s): Lesley Pearse
  • Location(s): London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

It is 1938 and Mariette Carrera is a defiant, strong-willed and selfish eighteen-year-old. And sooner or later, if she stays in the small, gossipy town of Russell, New Zealand, she’ll get herself into some serious trouble. Her doting parents,...

Swimming Home

Swimming Home
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes, Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is July, 1994 and Joe Jacobs, who is well known poet, his war reporter wife Isabel, and their 14 year old daughter are renting a holiday villa near Nice, accompanied by their friends Laura and Mitchell. Part into...

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