- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’s national coroner, a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty, and wants to...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
“Janowitz is a fearless writer. Her details are quirky, her language is lean and her sentences sprint along with deceptive ease. The protagonists in her stories share with her a shyness and a sense of always being out of...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Recent
In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise-his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle- out of all the...
- Location(s): Balkans, Europe
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 1990s
Vlado Petric, former detective in war-torn Sarajevo, has left his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany, where he scratches a meagre living among the dust of former conflicts on the building sites of the new...
Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
Peter Kerr turned his daydream of moving to Spain into reality.From snowy Scotland to snowy farmhouse in Mallorca! A wrong turn on an earlier trip brought him to the house of his dreams. Thus ensues a life populated by...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho, and into this human rabbit warren one evening slips Alex Singer, a student from Leeds in pursuit of his errant...
- Location(s): Iowa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Margaret Lydia Benning lives adrift in the same Midwest town where she went to college. By day, she works at a low-level job for the Project, a university-sponsored educational publisher housed in a former sanatorium. There she shares the...
- Location(s): Gopalpur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, perfect for fans of Vikas Swarup’s Slumdog Millioniare, with its emotive and, ultimately, redemptive story. ‘Will she recall that night? Or is it one of those too horrible times that her...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1970s looking back a century
Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his...
- Location(s): London, Oxford
- Era(s): Modern
Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why...
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