- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s
Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in...
- Location(s): Okinawa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 and modern
In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years...
- Location(s): Egypt, East Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Evolution of Fear and Reconciliation for the Dead. Claymore Straker returns in another gripping, page-turning, socially conscious thriller, with more at stake than ever… It is 1997, eight...
- Location(s): Accra
- Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Nana...
- Location(s): Addis Ababa
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir
- Era(s): Various
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Addis Ababa (simply “Addis”...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 2010s
On an otherwise ordinary day, 26-year-old American expat Adelaide Williams walks into a London hospital and asks for help. Something’s not right. She doesn’t feel like herself any more. For the past year, she’s been dating Rory Hughes, the...
- Location(s): Central America
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2005 - 2007
Embarking on a homeschooling field trip to Central America is stressful enough, but add in perilous bridge crossings, trips to the hospital, and a lack of women’s underwear, and you have the makings of an Adventure by Chicken Bus....
- Location(s): Greece, Ithaka (Ithaca)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Late 20th Century/Modern
A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection and the power of a tomato. ‘I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit...
- Location(s): Oregon, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a year-long exchange programme in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. An unforgettably witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dangerous psychopath has taken over Berlin’s leading radio station and is holding everyone inside hostage in the terrifying and twisted new thriller from Sebastian Fitzek. ‘Good morning. It’s 7.35 AM. And you’re listening to your biggest nightmare.’ This...
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