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A Vintage Wedding

A Vintage Wedding
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings. So they set up in business, organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings. Soon they are busy arranging other people’s Big Days. What none...

A Year in the Merde

A Year in the Merde
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The essence of the book lies just under the surface – an accurate portrayal of an Englishmen delving into the French system and all that involves. Full of humour and wry observations.

About Face

About Face
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

The 18th book in the Guido Brunetti series, dealing with toxic waste and the environmental problems besetting not only Venice but wider Italy. Rifling garbage, Brunetti discovers the secrets that the mobsters would like to keep hidden.

About Uncle

About Uncle
  • Author(s): Jordan Stump (Translator), Rebecca Gisler
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata. At an age when she’d rather...

Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights

Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights
  • Author(s): Jillian Schedneck
  • Location(s): Abu Dhabi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jillian Schedneck takes up a position teaching English to a classroom of UAE students in Abu Dhabi, she is young, idealistic, in love, and ready to take on the world. But it is not exactly what she anticipated:...

Acts of Desperation

Acts of Desperation
  • Author(s): Megan Nolan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

‘Such brilliant writing about female desire…honest and visceral’ Marian Keyes She’s twenty-three and in love with love. He’s older, and the most beautiful man she’s ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind...

Ada’s Realm

Ada’s Realm
  • Author(s): Sharon Dodua Otoo, Jon Cho-Polizzi (translator)
  • Location(s): Ghana, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1459 to present day

WHERE IS ADA? In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby does not live. As she grieves the loss of her child, Portuguese traders become...

Africa My Passion

Africa My Passion
  • Author(s): Corinne Hofmann
  • Location(s): Nairobi, Namibia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

In a compelling personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the...

African Beauty

African Beauty
  • Author(s): Mark Weston
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

Hodge, a British aid worker who got into the industry for the sex, jettisons his life of debauchery when he hears rumours about a mysterious prostitute whose fee nobody can afford. His quest to track her down takes him...

African Dawn

African Dawn
  • Author(s): Tony Park
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1950s to Modern

Natalie is ten years old when she is kidnapped by guerrillas from her grandparents’ farm in Rhodesia. Bloodied, terrified, and beaten at the hands of her captor, her life is saved when a young soldier comes to her rescue....

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