The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
9 best books like The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939 (Ella Maillart): Inland, The Price of Time, Ghost Wall, On Trails: An Exploration, Friday Black, Evening in Paradise: More Stories, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey, The Second Worst Restaurant in France, The Weight of Silence
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after...
Would your character change ...
if you had all the money in the world?
And all the time?
Would you become a better person?
Or worse?
Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller.
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There’s...
| Author | Sarah Moss |
| ISBN | 1783784458 |
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.
For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course...
On Trails: An Exploration
| Author | Robert Moor |
| ISBN | 1476739218 |
In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own?
Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe,...
| Author | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| ISBN | 1328911241 |
In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god.
Adjei-Brenyah's...
Evening in Paradise: More Stories
| Author | Lucia Berlin |
| ISBN | 0374279489 |
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.
In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller;...
| Author | Annemarie Schwarzenbach |
| ISBN | 0857420151 |
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan’s Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The...
The Second Worst Restaurant in France
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1846974216 |
Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.
So when Paul's eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she's rented in the French...
A heart-pounding novel of unspeakable crimes and unforgivable sins from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Rain.
Homicide detective Nicole Foster has finally balanced an unsteady life and is anxious for a second chance. There’s no better place to start over than at the beginning—back...
