- 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...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the wintry Tuscan coast, the wealthy elite retreat to their lavish holiday homes. But the season turns sinister when a couple vanishes from a locked villa, and the body of a dubious count washes ashore, bludgeoned to death....
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Claire Fontaine learns that her ex-husband Simon is marrying again, to a woman with a teenage daughter, her blood runs cold. She is sure that years ago Simon molested her own daughter and was responsible for her mysterious...
- Location(s): Lake Como
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Paul and Nicola, artist and his wife relocate to Lake Como, the warm descriptive writing of the process is beautiful, the locals come to life. A great book to help understand the ways of the people who live around...
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day...
- Location(s): Gauteng, Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question that haunts Mojisola as she grapples with the sudden loss of her daughter, Yinka, and the unresolved fractures in their relationship. Mojisola is...
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