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Broken Greek

Broken Greek
  • Author(s): Pete Paphides
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s, early 80s

When Pete’s parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no money and only a little bit of English. They opened a fish-and-chip shop in Acocks Green. The Great...

Brooklyn Noir 2 (The classics)

Brooklyn Noir 2 (The classics)
  • Author(s): Tim McLoughlin
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

An anthology of noir short stories under the editorship of Tim McLoughlin. Presents an anthology of chilling stories, each set in a distinct neighborhood of Brooklyn, featuring contributions by such noted mystery writers as Pete Hamill, H.P. Lovecraft, Donald...

Brother in Blood

Brother in Blood
  • Author(s): David Stuart Davies
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A brutal game devised by three intelligent but bored teenagers escalates into murder. Led by the charismatic and cunning Laurence, the trio of ‘brothers’ meets once a year to carry out untraceable, motiveless murders – for fun. Until, years...

Building Stories

Building Stories
  • Author(s): Chris Ware
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

In Chris Ware’s own words, ‘Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life: a couple who wonder if...

Burger’s Daughter

Burger’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Nadine Gordimer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The unfolding story of a young woman’s slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father’s death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be...

Burqalicious

Burqalicious
  • Author(s): Becky Wicks
  • Location(s): Dubai
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the real Dubai? Delve under the opulent layers of the sparkling city and see what lies beneath. A true story of sun, sand, sex and secrecy. For a sassy young woman used to blagging, blogging and slogging...

But Beautiful

But Beautiful
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room: Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle: Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano…In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes...

Butternut Lake, The Night Before Christmas

Butternut Lake, The Night Before Christmas
  • Author(s): Mary McNear
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mdern

You’re invited to Christmas at Butternut Lake! New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary McNear, author of Up at Butternut Lake and Butternut Summer, takes us home for the holidays in this joyful novella. Butternut Lake is so beautiful at Christmas—from the delightfully decorated...

Buttertea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya

Buttertea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
  • Author(s): Britta Das
  • Location(s): Bhutan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beguiling memoir recalls hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by...

By Any Other Name

By Any Other Name
  • Author(s): Jodi Picoult
  • Location(s): England, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 16th Century / Contemporary

What if the greatest writer of all time isn’t who we think he is? What if he isn’t even a he? Step back four hundred years and discover the female author who hid behind the mask of the man...

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