The Only Gaijin in the Village (Maloney Iain)(Paperback)

The Only Gaijin in the Village (Maloney Iain)(Paperback)

In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the village.Even after more than a decade living in

Denbighshire Villages(Paperback / softback)

Denbighshire Villages is the sixth book by Geoffrey Davies in a series covering the villages of the 13 historic Welsh Counties. The old county of is a county of great scenic beauty, admired by writers like Wordsworth and artists like

The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel from Palestine (Ashour Radwa)(Paperback)

Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known. She had not left her village before, but she would never return. Now an old woman, Ruqayya looks back on a long life in exile,

Black Apples of Gower (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback)

Iain Sinclair, the acclaimed writer, walks back along the cliff-top paths of the Gower peninsula in South Wales where he grew up. He soon recognises these walks were significant waymarks in his life as he discovered the mythology behind the Black Apples of Ceri Richards and the poems of Dylan

A Village Scandal (the Village Secrets, Book 2) (Court Dilly)(Paperback)

The second book in the dramatic new Village Secrets trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author.It was her wedding day... the roses and bluebells were blooming and their sweet-scent was filling the air, so why did Daisy feel the cold fingers of fear run down her spine?Spring in the village,

Village Secrets (Shaw Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

Mysterious goings-on in the village of Turnham

After the Dance: Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith (Smith Iain Crichton)(Paperback)

As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. At school in Stornoway he spoke English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture was divided: two languages and two histories entailing exile. His divided perspective delineated the tyranny of history and

Guardian (Moyer J.D.)(Paperback / softback)

Tem really struggles as the only brown-skinned child in the village. His mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation, but Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana, the tentacle-enhanced 'Squid Woman', while protecting a secret that could change the

One Man's Justice (Yoshimura Akira)(Paperback / softback)

Takuya, an ex-officer in the Imperial Army, has returned to his native village only to learn that the Occupation authorities are intensifying their efforts to apprehend suspected war criminals. One Man's Justice is both a reflection on the murky reality of war and a page-turning novel of pursuit

Trouble in the Village (Shaw Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

All is not well in the Rectory of Turnham Malpas...Another delightful story of village life by the ever perceptive Rebecca

Quarry (Banks Iain)(Paperback / softback)

The new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp

Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (Oz Amos)(Paperback / softback)

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One

Village Life (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with

Eyam - Plague Village (Paul David)(Paperback / softback)

A look in to the history behind the village of Eyam when the plague came killing the majority of the

The Skeleton Tree (Lawrence Iain)(Paperback)

We spread - Iain Reid

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her,

Abandoned Villages (Fisk Stephen)(Paperback)

Over the centuries many villages in Britain have been abandoned. This book describes the natural and man made causes of depopulation, from coastal erosion to the closing of major mining enterprises. Descriptions are given of villages when they were at their height and the way of life of their

Crow Road (Banks Iain)(Paperback / softback)

Iain Banks' masterly novel The Crow

Christmas in Noisy Village (Lindgren Astrid)(Paperback)

Let the beloved author of Pippi Longstocking take you on an adventure to Noisy Village The noisy children of three neighboring families are celebrating the season by baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts. With illustrations by Ilon

F**k Business - The Business of Brexit (Anderson Iain)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive account of the breakdown in the pivotal relationship between business and

Winter in Thrush Green (Read)(Paperback)

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and

Trouble in the Cotswolds (Tope Rebecca)(Paperback)

Thea Osborne hopes to spend a quiet Christmas house-sitting in the picturesque village of Stanton. Walks in the local countryside with the dogs are all the excitement she wants. Her arrival at the village coincides with the funeral of Douglas Callender and the murder of his girlfriend the following

Fratricides (Kazantzakis Nikos)(Paperback / softback)

The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, have taken to the mountains and joined the Communist

Stranger In Burracombe (Harry Lilian)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful tale in the bestselling series set in a Devon village in the 1950s. Like the rest of the nation, the Burracombe villagers are shocked when King George the Sixth dies suddenly in 1952. But in the midst of their grief, the arrival of a stranger in the village on the very same day goes