- Location(s): Mali
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Emily Kingsley arrives at the church for her eccentric Great Aunt Mary’s funeral, she is still grieving for her broken relationship with the vain, mean and unfaithful Ted, and has little sorrow to spare. At the wake afterwards,...
- Location(s): Uganda, Republic of the Congo, Teboke, The Sudan
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is the story of the life of Abudu Olwit, and of Teboke, the village where he is born and raised. In Teboke, two Indians build a cotton ginnery, and recruit workers from Sudan and the Congo to operate...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1985 looking back
In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and...
Footsteps on the Shore – A DI Andy Horton Mystery (6)
- Location(s): Portsmouth
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Friday the thirteenth begins badly for DI Andy Horton when he wakes to find his Harley has been vandalized and his boss, DCI Lorraine Bliss, has returned early from her secondment to HQ. Then, convicted murderer, Luke Felton, released...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into war-torn Afghanistan. Picturing himself seated...
- Location(s): Tangier
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1952
Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed’s family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed’s siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed...
- Location(s): Malawi
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
In the tradition of short-story greats like Chekhov and Grace Paley, Malawian writer S.O. Kenani examines weighty subjects with a light touch. Delicately balancing humour and pathos, he introduces us to the inhabitants of Chipiri, a village where everything...
For Now: Notes on living a deliberate life
- Location(s): Sifnos
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
What does it mean, to live a deliberate life? I use that term, but I’m still trying to figure it out. And I think that’s the point, essentially: that we’re always trying to figure it out. All of it....
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul, Guatemala
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
***Books of Hope Award Winner*** “If I don’t do this, I might as well perish …” Revealing her secret could save lives … or change hers forever. In this book that re-imagines the story of Queen Esther in a...
- Location(s): Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Suspected of a murder she can’t remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to proving her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices. When Jules Worthington-Smith’s wallet is found next to a dead...
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