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Chasing the Sun

Chasing the Sun
  • Author(s): Judy Leigh
  • Location(s): Mexico, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“..in these times where travel abroad is limited, a story where the central character has adventures in Spain and Mexico can transport readers to a sun-soaked destination where the sights, the food and the culture are absorbing…” Sun, Sangria...

Cinderella (Once Upon a World)

Cinderella (Once Upon a World)
  • Author(s): Chloe Perkins, Sandra Equihua (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The classic story of Cinderella gets a fresh twist in this vibrant Mexican spin on the beloved fairy tale! Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived in a little cottage with her stepmother and two stepsisters…...

Descent

Descent
  • Author(s): Tom Dawn
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, Mexico, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A diver loses it all … his buddy, his job, his confidence and even his moral compass. Seeking escape, he falls into a world of unreality and his descent continues, until the only way out is forwards “Returning were...

Día de los Muertos

Día de los Muertos
  • Author(s): Hannah Eliot, Jorge Gutierrez (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Learn all about the traditions of Día de los Muertos with this second book in the brand-new board book series Celebrate the World, which highlights special occasions and holidays across the globe. At the end of October each year,...

Everything We Keep

Everything We Keep
  • Author(s): Kerry Lonsdale
  • Location(s): Puerto Escondido
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. A luminous debut with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, and the pulse-racing repercussions of discovering the truth about the ones...

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...

Hatchet / Hamartia

Hatchet / Hamartia
  • Author(s): Carmen Boullosa
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Modern

A bilingual poetry collection in which a microwave, a fly, a soup, a football match, a train, or a child in the subway serve as pretexts to explain the tragic nature of life when death is involved. One with...

He Who Pays The Piper

He Who Pays The Piper
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Northern California, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ridge Walker is a hedonistic young Scot in a desperate race with the devil across Central America. He is consumed by guilt at his inability to save Orla, his beautiful and wild Irish wife, after their turbulent marriage went...

Home Cook: Over 300 delicious fuss-free recipes

Home Cook: Over 300 delicious fuss-free recipes
  • Author(s): Thomasina Miers
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2017

‘To me, home cooking means having fun with great ingredients without having to spend a fortune. It means spending some time, but not all the time, cooking nourishing flavoursome food. This book includes all my kitchen essentials and they...

Hurricane Season

Hurricane Season
  • Author(s): Fernanda Melchor
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse – by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals – propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumours and suspicions...

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