- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporayy
The brand-new Istanbul crime thriller staring Inspector Cetin Ikmen, ‘the Morse of Istanbul’ (Daily Telegraph), from Barbara Nadel. ON THE BONE is perfect for fans of Donna Leon. In Istanbul – the golden city on the Bosphorus – ancient...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Have you ever wanted to just leave everything and disappear? Can the instinct for survival overcome almost anything…? Leo Kemp’s life should be idyllic. He has a job that he loves at the Institute of Marine Biology and he...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 200s
I’m dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell him about the war between us for territory. And I...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made...
Once in Kazakhstan: The Snow Leopard Emerges
- Location(s): Kazakhstan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
Soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Keith Rostenleaves the United States to be a Fulbright Lecturer in newly-independentKazakhstan. In Once in Kazakhstan, Rosten drawsa sometimes humorous portrait of a critical period in the emergenceof this Central Asian...
- Location(s): South East England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 19h Century
“The Thames is a character in its own right” On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open and in steps an injured...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and...
- Location(s): Kent
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Regency
Lucy has survived hard times and by 1825 she believes she has it all but she doesn’t realize how fragile happiness can be. Into her life comes a charming artist intent on knowing her better. But why? And why...
One Day I Will Write About This Place
- Location(s): Kenya, Nairobi
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother’s beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s/ 1950s
Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate...
