- 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.
- 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...
- 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:...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set amidst Umbria’s landscape of desires and memories, a cast of characters collide in a web of deceit, greed and fallibility. At the centre of these overlapping stories is the cunning lawyer, Mancini, who has an unerring ability to...
- Location(s): France, Jura Mountains (Switzerland), Paris
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1980s/1990s
On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one...
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