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Skin Deep

Skin Deep
  • Author(s): Antonia Lassa
  • Location(s): Biarritz, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When police arrest eccentric loner Émile Gassiat for the murder of a wealthy woman in a shabby seaside apartment in Biarritz, Inspector Canonne is certain he has put the killer behind bars. Now he just needs to prove it....

Slash and Burn

Slash and Burn
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • 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...

Slaves of New York

Slaves of New York
  • Author(s): Tama Janowitz
  • 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...

Slipping into Paradise

Slipping into Paradise
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
  • 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...

Small Boat of Great Sorrows

Small Boat of Great Sorrows
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • 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

Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter
  • Author(s): Peter Kerr
  • 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...

Soho

Soho
  • Author(s): Keith Waterhouse
  • 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...

Some of Us Are Liars

Some of Us Are Liars
  • Author(s): Fiona Cummins
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She must face justice. As her sister it kills me to say it. As his mother I demand it. When Jen Miller entrusts her youngest child to the care of her beloved sisters, she has no idea of the...

Some Other Town

Some Other Town
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Collison
  • 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...

Someone Else’s Garden

Someone Else’s Garden
  • Author(s): Dipika Rai
  • 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...

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