Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
- Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
This is the account of the author’s decision to travel, against all advice, through the Democratic Republic of Congo, whilst it is in an on/off state of civil war: he goes back to past adventurers and explorers and the...
- Location(s): Nuoro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realises he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when, a few years later, Michele himself...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Inspired by the still unsolved murder of a Japanese family in 2000, Blue Light Yokohama is 2017’s most original and gripping crime debut . . . Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo’s homicide department, is...
- Location(s): Hamburg
- Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster’s crown jewels, the career of Hamburg’s most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nose dive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth, however, is much darker… As Kalki struggles to extract...
- Location(s): London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London. Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five children and a crumbling marriage....
- Location(s): Dunedin, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the official investigation into the murder of a respectable local businessman fails to add up, and personal problems start to play havoc with her state of mind, New Zealand’s favourite young detective Sam Shephard turns vigilante… ‘Fast-moving New...
- Location(s): Tromøy
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
No. 3 in the series. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of...
Bread and Oil: Majorcan Culture’s Last Stand
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): 2000s
On the island of Mallorca pa amb oli (bread and oil) is rubbed with garlic or tomatoes and salt, as it is in many other Mediterranean countries. Graves starts with this simple dish as a starting point to explore...
- Location(s): Jaffna, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she sees those around her, including her...
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