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Drinking the Sea at Gaza

Drinking the Sea at Gaza
  • Author(s): Amira Hass
  • 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...

Dune Song

Dune Song
  • Author(s): Anissa M Bouziane
  • 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...

Dying to Live

Dying to Live
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • 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

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
  • Author(s): Tom Holland
  • 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...

Early One Morning

Early One Morning
  • Author(s): Virginia Baily
  • 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...

East of the Sun

East of the Sun
  • Author(s): Julia Gregson
  • 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...

Echoes of the City

Echoes of the City
  • Author(s): Lars Saabye Christensen
  • 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

Echoes of Time – The Guernsey Novels Book 5
  • Author(s): Anne Allen
  • 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...

Elephant Moon

Elephant Moon
  • Author(s): John Sweeney
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese children, born...

Emerald Coast

Emerald Coast
  • Author(s): Anita Hughes
  • Location(s): Porto Cervo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set on the glamorous Italian island, Anita Hughes’s Emerald Coast is a touching and humorous story about marriage and the difficulty of finding love and happiness at the same time. Lily Bristol arrives at a luxurious resort in Sardinia...

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