Slow Trains to Venice: A Love Letter to Europe
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of...
- Location(s): India
- Era(s): 1960s
‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby’s self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a...
Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A Mississippi ghost town and an art mystery combine! How far would you go to find something that might not even exist? All her life, Cricket’s mama has told her stories about a secret room painted by a mysterious...
- Location(s): Bujumbura, Burundi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1992
Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister, Ana, is something close to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent with his friends sneaking cigarettes...
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern Day
An Irish Times Book of the Year 2019 Escaping her failing marriage, Grace has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she finds herself heir to an unexpected inheritance. First, there is the strange pink house, blue-shuttered,...
Small Feet, Big Land: Adventure, Home, and Family on the Edge of Alaska
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Small Feet, Big Land follows the expeditions and daily life of a family of four: Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, lifelong adventure trekkers, set out to explore the vast and remote wild corners of Alaska with their two...
- Location(s): Zurich
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
- Location(s): Kuwait
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000 - 2010
Set in Kuwait during the ominous years between the two Gulf wars, Small Kingdoms traces the intersecting lives of five people rich and poor, native and foreigner, Muslim, Christian, and non-believer when they discover that a teenaged Indian housemaid...
- Location(s): Western Australia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
A young drifter is in deep trouble, his sister is his only hope… Lucy’s younger brother has gone missing. When she sets out to find him, the trail takes her to Night Town. It’s a rural backwater deep in...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters...
