Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2)
- Location(s): Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tibet, Western China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Savannah Grace’s best selling, award winning saga of her family’s four-year-long backpacking adventure continues. “Backpacks and Bra Straps” picks up where “I Grew My Boobs in China” leaves off, offering insights into how family dynamics are affected by such...
- Location(s): Värmland
- Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
- Era(s): Current
It only takes one… A murder A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated A festival A cultish hilltop community ‘celebrates’ Pan Night after the apple harvest A race against time As Visberg closes ranks to keep its deadly...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a Parsi heiress approaches Inspector Chopra about her father’s death that the police dismissed as a random killing, Chopra feels uneasy at first at entering the world of power and privilege but is soon plagued by doubts about...
Baikonur: Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
- Location(s): Kyzylorda
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first ever collection of photographs showing in detail the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s most important urban exploration site. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was created by the Soviets in the 1950s. It was from Baikonur in 1988 that...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century to the future
In the restless city of Bangkok, there is a house. Over the last two centuries, it has played host to longings and losses past, present, and future, and has witnessed lives shaped by upheaval, memory and the lure of...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): over time
Robert Hughes has been visiting Barcelona since the 1960s and he has written an epic tribute to a city he loves. He tells the story of the growth of this Mediterranean metropolis from its origins as a Roman colonial...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Bayan, the title, is Russian for the accordion, since the story is based on a hauntingly beautiful narration of the transition of life from the Soviet through the post-Soviet era in Ukraine. The main character, Ivan Nikolaevich, is a...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1917
It is 1917, and Korea is yet to be divided into north and south. With the threat of famine looming, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver’s courtesan school in cosmopolitan Pyongyang, an...
- Location(s): Hydra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a...
- Location(s): Rajasthan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband’s death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza’s only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she’s determined to make a name for...