Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
Ingrid Betancourt’s story – her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience – has captured the world’s imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she...
- Location(s): Terra Alta, Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Melchor Marín novel. Winner of Spain’s biggest literary prize – the Premio Planeta When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña nothing quite adds up. The young cop...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of...
- Location(s): Mount Everest
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
It is the highest spot on planet Earth, known to many as the roof of the world and the ultimate challenge for mountain-climbing adventurers. Welcome to Mount Everest. Mount Everest is undoubtedly the most famous mountain on Earth. Hundreds...
- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1938 onwards
From the celebrated author of The Bird Sisters, a gorgeously rendered and emotionally charged novel that spans generations, telling the story of two siblings, raised apart, attempting to share a life. It is 1938 when Eveline, a young bride,...