- Location(s): Key West
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1993 and 1919
1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race...
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Current
Veronica McCreedy is about to have the journey of a lifetime . . . Veronica McCreedy lives in a mansion by the sea. She loves a nice cup of Darjeeling tea whilst watching a good wildlife documentary. And she’s...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Azúcar (sugar) is a novel about belonging in a world where all things are on the move: people, ideas, foods and not least music. Oswald Kole Osabutey Jnr, henceforth Yunior, leaves his family in Accra to travel to the...
- Location(s): Beirut
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. There is Lilian with her two children, desperate to emigrate, with...
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...
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