What Westerners Have for Breakfast Synopsis: In the mid-eighties John McBeath and his partner Sue left Australia for India with the dream to open a European-style pensione in an old Portuguese villa in Goa. After several visits to India they had…
No Place Like Home… bestselling author and award-winning journalist Caroline Overington delivers another thought-provoking and heart-rending story, that reaches from the heart of Bondi to a small village in Tanzania. No Place Like Home Synopsis: Shortly after 9.30 in the morning,…
In Mindy Mejia’s The Dragon Keeper a zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her… The Dragon Keeper Synopsis: Meg Yancy knows she may be overly attached to Jata, the Komodo dragon that has…
I Stole the Rain Synopsis: A trio of unforgettable stories from the superstitious Italian province of Campania In Campania fizzy drinks are delivered by cart, old women sell gold to a furtive clientele, and the tobacconist’s daughter is a prize…
Lion Heart Synopsis: A contemporary tale of belief, identity, the nature of fiction and the power of romance, Lion Heart is Justin Cartwright’s most inventive and powerful work to date. Richard Cathar was named after his father’s hero, Richard the Lionheart. Richard remembers…
Ramadan Sky Synopsis: A contemporary twist on a classic story of forbidden love, set in Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia. When Vic accepts a teaching position in Jakarta, she has already been working and travelling in Asia for many years; she…
David Sedaris’ Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls is the perfect audiobook to get you through your daily commute. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls Synopsis: From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a…
The Travel Auction is the first novel in Mark David Green’s four-book Travel Auction Adventures series. Read why it is one of my favourite indie novels. The Travel Auction Book Synopsis Could this be the ultimate blind date…? It should have…
In Three Lives of Tomomi Ishikawa, a new and enticing voice in fiction draws readers through the streets of Paris and New York on an intricate adventure. Three Lives of Tomomi Ishikawa Synopsis: What writer Benjamin Constable needs is a real-life…
The Art Forger Synopsis On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art, today worth over $500 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a…
The Spinning Heart Synopsis In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to…
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller Synopsis : You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer’s error in your copy. You take it…
Today Booklover Book Reviews is hosting the TLC Book Tour for the recently released story collection This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila. Synopsis Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai’i with breathtaking force…
And the Soft Wind Blows Synopsis Timmy Enosh is a peculiar, small man: fivethree, onehundred andfifteen pounds, and is a pharmacist in Ashton City, Tennessee. He finds himself at fortythreeyearsold as his life starts to fall apart: his threehundred pound…
The Art of Travel Synopsis Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save…
Black Bread White Beer Synopsis OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE Amal is driving his wife Claud from London to her parents’ country house. In the wake of Claud’s miscarriage, it is…
