Far Out: Sailing into a Disappearing World
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean, The South Seas
- Genre(s): Travelogue
Tired of their careers in the oil industry, Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race in search of freedom and adventure in the fabled South Pacific. Taking only what could justify its space...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Geneva
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he cherishes. He hires Artvin, a disillusioned...
- Location(s): Antibes, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1948
1948: an English housewife trapped in a dull marriage escapes to the South of France to claim a mystery inheritance. But rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge, and now they want her out of the way …...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the...
- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to Sao Paulo–a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa–and the world, as far as they know–to have survived a devastating virus which has...
- Location(s): Dallas, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s/2014
Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America’s richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become...
- Location(s): Israel, Palestine
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): contemporary
Ten years after breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels to write life at the roadsides of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. His journey weaves from fertile...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mystical, yet at the same time worldly, and written in a quirky lilt (in three very different voices), this feast for the senses will lavish your own life with tears and delight, and perhaps a little more than a...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century/Early 21st century
Set around London/South East England and mainly in Cornwall. When Wren Irving’s numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn’t tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter Phoebe...
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