- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
This wonderful tale transports the reader from the city to the forests and fells of Northern England. Under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr reconnects with the ancient past and discovers what it really means to be...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
A reissue of this proclaimed novel, and Zimbabwean classic, that won both the Zimbabwe Book Publishers’ Association first prize for literature, and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1989. The jury citation described the novel as ‘a...
Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead,...