- 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...
- Location(s): Atlanta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The author of Silver Sparrow returns with a stunning novel about race, loyalty, and love that endures. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and...
- Location(s): Tangier, Andalusia (Andalucía), Gibraltar
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s looking back to 1920s
In the dead of night, with blood on her hands, she made her escape. Accused of murder, Alejandra flees her home, escaping to the southern edge of Spain, where she faces a life of poverty and destitution. Seduced by...
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival
- Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Françoise Malby-Anthony never expected to find herself responsible for a herd of elephants with a troubled past. A chic Parisienne, her life changed forever when she fell in love with South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Together they founded a...
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