28 books organised by setting and genre.

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Africa

• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  •  Stay with me, Ayobami Adebayo Contemporary. Ilesa, Nigeria.

Asia

• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  •  A horse walks into a bar, David Grossman (Translated from the Hebrew) Present day. Israel.
  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy Present day/retrospective. India.

Australia

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  •  The unmourned (The Monsarrat Series #2), Meg Keneally 1825. Parramatta, New South Wales.
  •  The last days of Ava Langdon, Mark O’Flynn 1974. Katoomba, New South Wales.
  • First person, Richard Flanagan Present day/retrospective. Gulf country, Queensland, Australia; and an outer Melbourne suburb Australia.
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  • An isolated incident, Emily Maguire Contemporary. Fictional country town of Strathdee in Australia.

Europe

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  • The Essex serpent, Sarah Perry 1893. London.
  •  The unseen, Roy Jacobsen (Translated from the Norwegian) Early 20th Century. Barrøy Island, Norway.
• MYSTERY/ CRIME FICTION
  •  Snowblind (Dark Iceland #1), Ragnar Jonasson (Translated from the Icelandic) Contemporary. Siglufjörður, Iceland.
  •  Yesterday, Felicia Yap Alternative reality. Cambridge, England.
  • In a dark, dark wood, Ruth Ware Contemporary. England.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION
  •  The girl before, JP Delaney Contemporary. London.
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  • Five rivers met on a wooded plain, Barney Norris Contemporary. Salisbury, England.
  • Fallow, Daniel Shand Contemporary. Scottish Highlands.

International waters

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  •  The north water, Ian McGuire 1859. From Hull, England through the North Atlantic Sea to North-west Passage.

Multi-continent

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  •  Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi Late 18th Century to present day. Ghana Africa; and Mississippi and Harlem USA.

North America

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  • Barkskins : a novel, Annie Proulx 17th Century to 20th Century. Canada and USA.
  • The sport of kings, C.E. Morgan 1770s to mid-2000s. Kentucky USA.
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  • The Grownup, Gillian Flynn Contemporary. Unstated place somewhere in the USA.
  •  Little deaths, Emma Flint 1965. Queens, New York, USA.
  •  The sleepwalker, Chris Bohjalian Contemporary. Vermont USA.
  •  A book of American martyrs, Joyce Carol Oates Contemporary. Ohio, USA.
  •  The Twelve lives of Samuel Hawley : a novel, Hannah Tinti Contemporary. Massachusetts, USA.
  • The mare, Mary Gaitskill Contemporary. New York State, USA.
  •  History of wolves, Emily Fridlund Contemporary. Minnesota USA.
• NON-FICTION
  • Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J. D. Vance 20th Century/ present day. Ohio, USA.

South America

• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  •  Fever dream : a novel, Samanta Schweblin (Translated from the Spanish) Contemporary, Argentina.