- Location(s): Positano
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980s
A young boy runs away to sea. An elderly countess finds a stray dog – and love. A Patricia Highsmith fan follows in her idol’s footsteps, in more ways than one. A woman goes in search of her roots...
- Location(s): China, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps...
- Location(s): Gaza
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
The first Israeli journalist to voluntarily live in Gaza, the much-maligned Palestinian enclave, offers her insights and reflections on what she saw and learned, the joys, and the sudden fears, and gives a moving portrait of the resilient Palestinian...
- Location(s): Morocco, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘I came to the Sahara to be buried.’ After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity fractured and her American dream destroyed. She returns to Morocco...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
No. 6 in the Detective Kubu series When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems. An autopsy reveals...
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 100BC to 100AD
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From WW2 into second half 20th Century
A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment. One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1920s
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen’s crowning achievement – an intricate and utterly compelling narrative. Christensen is one of Scandinavia’s finest and most celebrated storytellers, who has devoted the best part of his...
Echoes of Time – The Guernsey Novels Book 5
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): WWII and present day
Betrayal, injustice and revenge echo down the years… 1940. Olive marries farmer Bill Falla. The Germans occupy Guernsey. All too soon Olive realises she’s made a mistake. Her life changes when she meets Wolfgang, a German officer- but there’s...
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