Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Set in the Great Depression and told retrospecitvely from the 1980s. Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison have opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the small town in Alabama became a home form home. You could get eggs, grits, bacon,...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mainly 20th Century
Sigi lived upstairs from Sara at Friedrichstrasse 19 yet before they met, Sara had no idea that Berlin could be so thrillingly irreverent or that sex could be so intoxicatingly wonderful. But then came the war, and hunger, loneliness...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction,...
From A Wonky Path To An Open Road: A short book about a long journey
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2019
In 2019, BAFTA-winning film producer, Janey de Nordwall packed her bags (and her cat), fired up her 1970s VW campervan and headed off from her London home to Scotland for a solo road trip that would change her life....
From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Era(s): 1940s and 1950s
The book traces the author’s life from his Eden-like upbringing, his time at the University in Mandalay when the government started clamping down, and finally his time at Cambridge University. A fascinating and gripping of life in Burma, and...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1635
The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jónas Pálmason,...
From Utmost East to Utmost West
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Adventure, Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th Century
For over 60 years John Blashford-Snell has been exploring some of the planet’s most remote, inaccessible and dangerous places; his name is known globally for his daring adventures and intrepid journeys of discovery. Now, well into his eighties (and...
Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Perhaps you’re not a member of the Azov House of Culture Elderly Club? Perhaps you missed the talk on the Cabbage Root Fly last week? Galina Petrovna hasn’t missed a single one, since she officially became ‘old’. But she’d...
- Location(s): New Forest, Southampton
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
PC Lucy Halliday #1 When a hand is found in Gallows Wood, PC Lucy Halliday and her specialist search dog Moss must find the rest of the body. What they uncover is a killer’s dumping ground. Like every case...
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