- Location(s): Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920 to present
Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, she only wants to endure Mary, and the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The author spent a Summer with the gondoliers to find out what they are really about. She looks behind the mystery of the gondoliere and brings them to life.
- Location(s): Cannes
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Serena has the job she’s always dreamed of and Chase, the man her heart never dared to. As a new editor at Vogue, she bags the biggest interview of the year with Yvette Renault, the infamous former editor of...
French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley
- Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th century
***Bronze Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction – Travel category at the 2014 Readers’ Favorite Book Award Contest*** Most lies are told with the expectation that no one will uncover them. When I was twenty-one I told a monumental and...
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....
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