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The happy isles of Oceania
Paul Theroux
Join Paul Theroux on one of his most exotic and tantalizing
adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific
Islands. Alone in his kayak, paddling to seldom visited shores,
he glides through time and space, discovering a world of
islands, their remarkable people, and in turn, happiness.
This collection of tales is set against the background of the
South Pacific, the endless ocean, the coral specks called
islands, the coconut palms, the reefs, the lagoons, the jungles,
and the full moon rising against the volcanoes.
Exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient
book and some yellowing letters addressed to 'My dear and
unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a
labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past.
The original vampire novel.
(Fiji, Tonga and Samoa)
Tales of the South Pacific
James Michener
The historian
Elizabeth Kostova
(Romania)
Dracula
(Romania)
Bloodlines
(Italy)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years
of Pilgrimage (Japan)
The invisible mountain
Bram Stoker
Marcello Fois
Haruki Murakami
Carolina de Robertis
(Uruguay)
Suite Française
(France)
Irene Némirovsky
A domestic epic of the lives and loves of the Chironi family, as
they struggle through war and fascism.
Tsukuru Tazaki’s four best friends one day announced that
they didn't want to see Tsukuru ever again. Since then Tsukuru
was unable to form connections with anyone. Then he meets
Sara, who helps him to find out what happened.
On the first day of the year 1900, a small town deep in the
Uruguayan countryside gathers to witness a miracle—the
mysterious reappearance Pajarita, a lost infant who will grow
up to begin a lineage of fiercely independent women.
Novel set in occupied France
My Brilliant Friend
( Italy)
American Gods
( USA)
The Luminaries
(New Zealand)
Daughters of Mars
( Australia)
Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party
(Ireland)
Bloke Miles
( England)
Still Midnight
(Scotland)
The Welsh Girl
(Wales)
Black Dog Summer
( South Africa)
Lives of Girls and Women
(Canada)
The Winter Queen
( Georgia)
Daniel
( Namibia)
Elena Ferrante
Two friends in 1950s Naples
Neil Gaiman
Shadow travels America with “Mr. Wednesday” )
Eleanor Catton,
A mystery story written by a New Zealand author
Thomas Keneally,
1915 set on Western Front, 2 Australian nurses
Alexander McCall
Smith,
Matthew Ravden,
Betty plans a 40th birthday trip to Ireland and things go wrong
Denise Mina
Peter Ho Davis
Men earning ‘bloke miles’ to do bloke things, English Rugby
theme
Gritty crime set in Glasgow
Miranda Sherry
In the wake of D Day two different German come to the Black
Mountains
A haunting novel of South Africa
Alice Monroe
The only novel from winner of Nobel Prize for Literature
Boris Akunin
This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, the famous
gentleman sleuth.
Henning Mankell
Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the
Kalahari Desert, determined to find an undiscovered insect to
name after himself and advance his career. Instead, he finds a
young boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European
raiders.
The Honorary Consul
Graham Green
Tragicomic tale of a bugled kidnapping in Argentina
Rugby World Cup – participating countries: England, Australia, Wales, Fiji, Uruguay, South Africa, Samoa, Japan, Scotland, USA, New Zealand,
Argentina, Tonga, Georgia, Namibia, France, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Romania