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Displacement

Displacement
  • Author(s): Anne Stormont
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The search for resolution after the upheaval of loss. A journey full of insight, forgiveness and love. Divorce, the death of her soldier son and estrangement from her daughter, leave Hebridean crofter, Rachel Campbell, grief-stricken, lonely and lost. Forced...

Gomorrah

Gomorrah
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss (translator)
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano’s groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities,...

Her Mother’s Secret

Her Mother’s Secret
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Belle-Île-en-Mer, Sauzon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland – the magical island of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Southern Brittany – afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears...

How to be Brave

How to be Brave
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2

This is a novel about how stories bring magic to our lives. Natalie and Rose are transported to the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, to a lifeboat where an ancestor survived for fifty days. Natalie struggles when nine-year-old daughter Rose...

In The Shadow of the Banyan

In The Shadow of the Banyan
  • Author(s): Vaddey Ratner
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Soon...

Loving Modigliani

Loving Modigliani
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): Montparnasse, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Mostly 20th century

Linda Lappin’s new novel examines the real and imagined aftermaths of the 1920 death of the artist Jeanne Hébuterne, lover and wife of the painter, Amadeo Modigliani. An artist in her own right, Hébuterne died in a fall from...

My Lemon Grove Summer

My Lemon Grove Summer
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could the lemon groves of Sicily be the perfect place to start over? The irresistible new novel from Jo Thomas, the author of Sunset Over the Cherry Orchard, will transport you to the island of mountains and sparkling blue...

No Honour

No Honour
  • Author(s): Awais Khan
  • Location(s): Pakistan, Lahore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young woman defies convention in a small Pakistani village, with devastating results for her and her family. A stunning, immense beautiful novel about courage, family and the meaning of love, when everything seems lost… _______________ In sixteen-year-old Abida’s...

Off the Grid

Off the Grid
  • Author(s): C J Box
  • Location(s): Wyoming
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no hiding off the grid. Joe Pickett’s old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. But they’re not the only ones looking. Nate finds himself confronted by agents who need...

Read the World: A Country-By-Country Guide to the Best Books on Africa, Asia and Latin America

Read the World: A Country-By-Country Guide to the Best Books on Africa, Asia and Latin America
  • Author(s): Pushpinder Khaneka
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Various

Read your way across the world – and get to know it better. READ THE WORLD recommends the best three books on more than 50 countries, taking readers on a trip through Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin...

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