- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Andrew, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, returns to his hometown in upstate New York for his mother’s funeral. He does not intend to stay in the slow rural backwater he left seventeen years before. But the dreams and...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Devon, London, Snowdonia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1900s, Modern
2011 Carys agrees, with mixed feelings, to look after her mother after a fall. This decision unsettles everything – her job, her plans, her relationship with Jack. Once home she is drawn back into village life, into her family history...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Taken prisoner by a ruthless group of anarchists deep in the Cambodian jungle, anthropologist Jocelyn Hewitt is isolated in a dark prison cell. Without chance of rescue. Or hope. Until the man in the next cell reaches out to...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue, presents an architect’s account of visits to 12 of Ancient Egypt’s most spectacular sites, a journey that transports the reader from the urban metropolis of Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza to the...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘War’ is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count – 23,000 dead in five years – and sheer...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is...
- Location(s): Zurich
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you’re anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zürich and is decidedly down on his luck, you might well...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise’s death was not all it seems. With a history of depression, Cathy is only just recovering...
- Location(s): Hungary
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
For years, Elza has managed to get by. She has her own little restaurant in the Hungarian city of Delibab cooking quality versions of her country’s classics and serving them with a smile. But lately her smile has become...










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