- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named China Court. Her grandmother’s recent death has set in motion events that threaten Tracy’s...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
Ambitious, playful and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka – and the story of modern day Sri Lanka through its most cherished sport. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as ‘one of the most...
- Location(s): Devon, Warwickshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Especially Lizzy Kingham. But this year, she is feeling unloved and underappreciated by her family. The present-buying, decorating and food shopping have all been left to her. So she wonders . . . what would happen if she ran...
- Location(s): Canberra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1980s
At 28 years of age, Louise finds herself the last of the girls in her family to have a family of her own – and she is the eldest! Finding herself excluded from family events, she decides to develop...
Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
House Parties. Pick-Up Trucks. Cherry-Vanilla Ice-Cream. Prom Night. Unrequited Love. Welcome to the spring of 1987 and the world of Stephen Shulevitz who, with three months of high school to go in the small town of Riverside, Nova Scotia,...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this short read, Brandon brings Florida (Citrus County) to life, spun around the story of adolescence, teen romance and true evil.
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1660s onwards
Rich with unforgettable characters and history, intricately plotted and utterly absorbing, “City of Dreams” is a stirring saga of early Manhattan and the beginnings of medical science told by a master storyteller. In 1661, Lucas Turner and his sister,...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Cidade de Deus, the City of God welcome to one of Rio’s most notorious slums. A place where the streets are awash with drugs, where violence can erupt at any moment, over drugs, money and love but also where...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Architect Matthew Halland lets himself be influences by the blend of past and present, memories of childhood, his daughter and his marriage that has ended – architecture is his metaphor for life moving along and change. He is now...
Clash of Civilisations over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
A small, culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the centre of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbours is murdered. As each of the victim’s neighbours is questioned, the reader is offered an...










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