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...
Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Away from the five-star hotels and beyond luxury hideaways, Tom Chesshyre travels to see the real, unexplored Maldives, skirting around the archipelagos periphery, staying at simple guesthouses, and using cargo ships and ferries. He discovers that beyond the glossy...
- Location(s): Long Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everyone knows Gatsby. New money. Murky past. Huge online following. Nic Carraway doesn’t belong amongst the super-rich, but when she scores a cheap summer lease in Long Island, it-girl Jay Gatsby becomes her neighbour. Gatsby welcomes Nic to her...
- Location(s): Berlin, Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan...
- Location(s): North Dakota, South Dakota
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
This is the first in a trilogy of books about the Norwegian settlement of the Dakota Territory, followed by ” Peder Victorious”, and then “Their Fathers’ God”. The author is a Norwegian who went to the USA in the late 1800s...
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