Paris
- 2024Louvre, Paris
A girl who may go blind sees one work of art a week in Paris museums with her grandfather.
- 2016
- 2015Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
Evicted, a former record-shop owner drifts from sofa to sofa across today’s Paris.
Provence
- 2016Monieux, Provence
11th century: a Rouen girl flees with the Jewish man she loves to Monieux, in Provence.
- 2004Luberon, Provence
A sacked London banker inherits his uncle’s run-down vineyard in the Luberon.
- 2002Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence · also Avignon
Three men in Avignon and Vaison as Rome falls, the plague comes and the Germans occupy.
Normandy
- 2014Yport, Normandy
The chalk cliffs of Yport: a runner sees a woman jump, and becomes the suspect.
- 2011Giverny, Normandy
Three women, a murder by the stream, and Monet’s village and water garden at Giverny.
- 2009Omaha Beach, Normandy · also Caen
1944: the landings, then a long and savage summer of fighting through the bocage.
Brittany
- 2014also Saint-Malo
1944: a blind French girl and a German radio boy in Saint-Malo as the walled town burns.
- 2013Glénan Islands, Brittany
Three bodies on the Glénan islands, off Concarneau, and Dupin who hates boats.
- 2012Pont-Aven, Brittany
A Parisian commissaire exiled to Brittany investigates a hotelier’s murder in Pont-Aven.
Marseille
- 2006
- 2001
- 1998Les Goudes, Marseille
The last Fabio Montale: the Mafia closes in on Marseille, from Les Goudes to the Panier.
Rome
- 2026
A student and his neighbour cross a gleaming Rome by motorbike: a whole life in one day.
- 2023also Vatican City
1943: an Irish priest in the Vatican runs an escape line under the Gestapo’s eyes.
- 2022
Venice
- 2024Murano, Venice
From 1486: a glassmaker’s daughter on Murano makes beads as the centuries skip by.
- 2024
A brawl between teenage gangs in a Venice campo leads Brunetti to a wounded veteran.
- 2023
A man is found dead in a Venice canal, and Brunetti goes back to his own student years.
Naples
- 2020Soccavo, Naples
A boy footballer in Soccavo, a hard Naples neighbourhood, after his mother leaves.
- 2019
A girl from the heights of Naples goes down to the poor city her father came from.
- 2016
Sicily
- 2022
- 2021
1960s: a Sicilian girl refuses to marry the man who raped her, against her whole village.
- 2019also Palermo
1799: two brothers open a spice shop in Palermo, the start of a dynasty.
Florence
- 2023San Lorenzo, Florence
1557: Pontormo is found murdered under his unfinished frescoes in San Lorenzo.
- 2021Santo Spirito, Florence
1944–1979: a soldier meets an art historian in Tuscany, then makes his life in Florence.
- 2013Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital and flees through the Palazzo Vecchio and Boboli.
London
- 2024Caledonian Road, London
A celebrity art historian’s fall exposes London from its oligarchs to its streets.
- 2021Foundling Hospital, London
1850s: a foundling left by Hyde Park, raised in the London Foundling Hospital.
- 1938Upper Norwood, London · also Corfu
A young writer rots in a seedy South London hotel, and writes his way out from Corfu.
Yorkshire
- 2017Cragg Vale, Yorkshire
1760s: coin clippers rule the moors above the Calder Valley, until the law comes.
- 2017Buttershaw, Bradford, Yorkshire
1980s: Andrea Dunbar puts her Bradford estate, Buttershaw, on London’s stages.
- 2017
Oxford
- 2025
- 2017Godstow, Oxford
A flood on the Thames: an innkeeper’s boy carries a baby downstream by canoe.
- 1935
Dorset
- 2009also Lyme Regis
1810s: Mary Anning and a London spinster hunt fossils on the beaches of Lyme Regis.
- 1995Bournemouth, Dorset
Late 1940s: Gerald’s sister Margo runs a Bournemouth boarding house of eccentric lodgers.
- 1969also Lyme Regis
1867: a gentleman fossil hunter and an outcast woman on the Cobb at Lyme Regis.
Cornwall
- 2023
- 2021
- 2018South West Coast Path, Cornwall
Homeless and ill, a couple walk the South West Coast Path around Cornwall.
Madrid
- 2019
Madrid, 1957: a Texan boy at the Castellana Hilton and a maid with her family’s secret.
- 2017
- 2011
A young American poet on a fellowship in Madrid, as the train bombings strike.
Barcelona
- 2018
- 2016
Franco’s secret police, a vanished minister, and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
- 2012
A young Moroccan from Tangier washes up in Barcelona’s Raval as the Arab Spring begins.
Mallorca
- 2022Valldemossa, Mallorca
1838: a ghost watches Chopin and George Sand winter in the charterhouse at Valldemossa.
- 2015
- 2014Palma, Mallorca
1936: a girl’s summer of revolution in Catalonia, and Bernanos seeing the terror in Palma.
Seville
- 2013Triana, Seville
A freed Cuban slave and a gypsy girl in the Triana of 1748, then Madrid.
- 2003
- 1995
A Vatican priest looks into deaths around a crumbling baroque church in Seville.
Andalusia
- 2021Algeciras, Andalusia
1942: Italian frogmen raid Gibraltar from Algeciras, and a bookseller falls for one.
- 2019
- 2016
Athens
- 2019
- 2014
- 2010
Workers on the edges of Athens and Piraeus, as the debt crisis takes hold.
Crete
- 2020Spinalonga, Crete
1957: the night Spinalonga’s leper colony closes, and what becomes of those it frees.
- 2014
1944: Leigh Fermor and Cretan partisans kidnap General Kreipe and cross the mountains.
- 2005Spinalonga, Crete
1939–57: a family’s story unfolds around Spinalonga, Crete’s leper colony.
Corfu
- 2024also Cephalonia
1920s–1953: three women of the Ionian islands, until the earthquake levels Cephalonia.
- 2003Rovinia, Corfu
A year at Rovinia, season by season, with the recipes of the house’s cook, Maria.
- 2001
Thessaloniki
- 2011
- 2004
1430–1950: Christians, Muslims and Jews in Salonica, from the Ottomans to the Holocaust.
- 1975
Epirus
- 1983
- 1966
- 1953also Ioannina
Ioannina between the wars: Sioulas the tanner, Sabethai the Jew, and the old town dying.
Moscow
- 2022Kremlin, Moscow
Putin’s spin doctor tells how a theatre man came to stage-manage the new Russia.
- 2022
- 2016Hotel Metropol, Moscow
1922: a count is sentenced to spend his life inside Moscow’s Hotel Metropol.
Saint Petersburg
- 2016also Moscow
Shostakovich waits by the lift of his Leningrad flat each night for the NKVD to come.
- 2011
1941–44: the siege of Leningrad, told through the diaries of those inside it.
- 2008
North Caucasus
- 2003
Dispatches from the second Chechen war, from the villagers caught between both sides.
- 1912
- 1863
Volgograd
- 1998
- 1980
The ruins of Stalingrad, and a family scattered across camps, laboratories and the front.
- 1952
Nizhny Novgorod
- 1916
Young Gorky as a servant, an icon painter’s boy and a Volga steamer hand, in Nizhny.
- 1914
1870s: a boy in his grandfather’s dye works, between beatings and a grandmother’s tales.
Berlin
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
1990: a young poet squats in Prenzlauer Berg as East Berlin falls open after the Wall.
Dresden
- 2020
Norbert Paulini, Dresden’s revered antiquarian bookseller, before and after the Wall.
- 2008Weißer Hirsch, Dresden
1982–89: an educated family in a Dresden villa quarter as East Germany decays.
- 2004
Hamburg
- 2016
- 1974
Weimar
- 1994Buchenwald, Weimar
1945: Semprún walks out of Buchenwald and takes fifty years to write about it.
- 1963Buchenwald, Weimar
1943: five days and nights in a sealed wagon from Compiègne to Buchenwald.
Hiddensee
- 2014
Dublin
- 2023
- 2023Dalkey, Dublin
A retired policeman in a castle annexe at Dalkey, and an old case from the Church’s past.
- 2020
1950s: an actor’s childhood on the edge of Dublin, with its priests, cinemas and fields.
County Wexford
- 2024Enniscorthy, County Wexford
Twenty years on, Eilis comes home from America to Enniscorthy for a summer.
- 2021New Ross, County Wexford
1985: a coal merchant in New Ross discovers what the local convent hides.
- 2014Enniscorthy, County Wexford
1960s: a widow in Enniscorthy slowly rebuilds her life and finds her own voice.
County Mayo
- 2016Louisburgh, County Mayo
An engineer at his kitchen table in Louisburgh on All Souls’ Day: a life in one sentence.
- 2013Mulranny, County Mayo
A Parisian widow flees her grief to a windswept village on the Mayo coast.
- 1957also Achill Island
Rain, pubs, priests and emigrants: Böll’s summers on Achill Island, off the Mayo coast.
Sligo
- 2008
1920s–1930s: an old woman in an asylum writes down her youth in Sligo after the civil war.
- 1998
A Sligo man joins the wrong police in 1920 and is barred from his town for life.
- 1893
Fairies, ghosts and village seers, as told to the young Yeats around Sligo and Ben Bulben.
County Kerry
- 2016
1825: a widow, a maid and a healer in a Kerry valley, and a child they think a changeling.
- 1933Great Blasket, County Kerry
Growing up on the Great Blasket: wakes, races, seal hunts, and the boat to the mainland.
- 1929Great Blasket, County Kerry
A fisherman’s life on the Great Blasket, set down before his island world was gone.
Edinburgh
- 2022
Rebus, on trial himself, and a corrupt Edinburgh police station with a long memory.
- 2021Old Town, Edinburgh
1910–1999: one Edinburgh tenement, 10 Luckenbooth Close, and its tenants floor by floor.
- 2020
A Saudi student killed in an Edinburgh car park, while Rebus heads north to his daughter.
Glasgow
- 2022East End, Glasgow
Two boys, one Protestant, one Catholic, in love on the estates of Glasgow’s East End.
- 2020Sighthill, Glasgow
1980s: a boy tries to save his drinking mother, from Sighthill to a dead pit village.
- 2020
1973: a missing girl and a dead rock star in Glasgow’s hottest July, with DI Harry McCoy.
Scottish Highlands
- 2015Applecross, Scottish Highlands
1869: a crofter’s son kills three in a Wester Ross village; his memoir and trial.
- 1991
- 1886
Shetland
- 2025Muckle Flugga, Shetland
A father and son keep Britain’s northernmost lighthouse, until a writer comes to stay.
- 2024
- 2024
A Shetland loner, his country songs, and the kitten that leads him to his neighbours.
The Hebrides
- 2012Isle of Lewis, the Hebrides
A drained loch on Lewis gives up a small plane, and the pilot was Fin Macleod’s friend.
- 2011Isle of Lewis, the Hebrides
A body from a Lewis peat bog, and an old man’s memories of the Hebrides of the 1950s.
- 2009Isle of Lewis, the Hebrides
A detective returns to Lewis for a murder, and to the gannet hunt on an Atlantic rock.
Oslo
- 2019Rådhusplassen, Oslo
New Year’s Eve: a bomb on Oslo’s City Hall square reopens a child’s disappearance.
- 2017
- 2013
Nordland
- 2025
- 2025Vega, Nordland
A season with the last eider-duck keeper on the islands of Vega, off Norway’s coast.
- 1989
Lofoten
- 2015
Two friends in a rubber dinghy hunt a Greenland shark off Lofoten, through four seasons.
- 2015
- 1921
The winter cod fishery of the Lofoten, in open boats under sail, as the engines arrive.
Bergen
- 2015
A singer follows a clue to Bergen and the Norwegian girl who sang in Grieg’s Peer Gynt.
- 2012
- 2010
Svalbard
- 2021
1916 on: a Swedish miner flees to Svalbard and lives out decades as a trapper in the ice.
- 1938Gråhuken, Svalbard
A painter from Austria winters in a trapper’s hut on the north coast of Spitsbergen.
Istanbul
- 2019
A murdered prostitute remembers her Istanbul, and five friends go to find her grave.
- 2017
Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: eight thousand years of the city on the Bosphorus.
- 2016also Oxford
A dinner party in Istanbul, and the Oxford friendships that broke her years before.
Gallipoli
- 1956
Stockholm
- 2017Södermalm, Stockholm
1793: a mutilated body in a Södermalm pond, in a filthy, fearful Stockholm.
- 2015
Friends and lovers piece together the life of a young Stockholm man after his death.
- 2009
Skåne
Ystad
- 1998
- 1996
- 1995also Skåne
Midsummer: a girl burns herself in a rapeseed field, and an axe killer stalks Ystad.
Värmland
- 1983Sunne, Värmland
1930s: a mother dies on the way to sing Bach, and three generations of Sunne carry it.
- 1914
A Värmland crofter’s daughter leaves for Stockholm, and he crowns himself emperor.
- 1891Lake Fryken, Värmland
1820s: a defrocked priest and twelve cavaliers run wild for a year on a Värmland estate.
Bohuslän
- 2004Fjällbacka, Bohuslän
A girl’s body in a rock cleft at Fjällbacka, and two women murdered twenty years before.
- 2003Fjällbacka, Bohuslän
A writer back in Fjällbacka finds her childhood friend frozen in the bath.
Helsinki
- 2020
1939: a young Helsinki woman joins the Lotta Svärd at a field hospital in the Winter War.
- 2019
- 2015
Häme
- 1959Urjala, Häme
1880s–1918: a crofter’s family in a Häme village, up to the civil war.
- 1931
- 1919
Kainuu
- 2005Suomussalmi, Kainuu
1939: a woodcutter stays on in Suomussalmi as the Finns burn it before the Red Army.
- 1992Ukonjärvi, Kainuu
An old atheist orders his grandson to build a church deep in the Kainuu forest.
Vienna
- 2023Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
1966–1976: a café by the Karmelitermarkt and the Viennese who pass through it.
- 2015
- 2012Währinger Straße, Vienna
1937: a country boy works in a Vienna tobacco shop and befriends Sigmund Freud.
The Austrian Alps
- 2014
- 2011
- 1963
Warsaw
- 2017
Emptying his late mother’s Warsaw flat, a son sorts through her books and her life.
- 2017
1958: Foucault in Warsaw, the city’s hidden gay life, and the police who watched it.
- 2016
Gdańsk
- 2004
- 2001
- 1987
Summer 1957: three boys follow a strange classmate into the hills above Gdańsk.
Lower Silesia
- 2022Sokołowsko, Lower Silesia
1913: men talk of women in a sanatorium at Görbersdorf, in the Silesian mountains.
- 2009Kłodzko Valley, Lower Silesia
An eccentric old woman in a remote Silesian hamlet suspects animals of killing hunters.
- 1998Nowa Ruda, Lower Silesia
A house near Nowa Ruda on the Czech border: neighbours, saints, mushrooms and dreams.
Wrocław
- 2002also Lower Silesia
A thousand years of Wrocław, once Breslau, a city passed between nations.
- 1999also Lower Silesia
1933: a Breslau detective investigates a grisly murder as the Nazis take power.
Kraków
- 1982Zabłocie, Kraków
A German industrialist in Kraków saves his Jewish workers from Płaszów and Auschwitz.
Reykjavik
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
North Iceland
- 2020Raufarhöfn, North Iceland
The self-appointed sheriff of Raufarhöfn, a dying fishing village, finds blood in snow.
- 2014Siglufjörður, North Iceland
A policeman shot at an abandoned house outside Siglufjörður, as the dark closes in.
- 2013Kornsá, North Iceland
1829: a farm family in the north of Iceland must lodge a woman condemned to death.
South Iceland
- 1943Thingvellir, South Iceland
1700s: a farmer accused of murder, a book collector, and the bell cut down at Thingvellir.
- 1280Bergþórshvoll, South Iceland
Around the year 1000: two friends, their wives’ feud, and a farm burned with its people.
East Iceland
- 1934
1900s–1920s: a sheep farmer fights the moor, his debts and his family to stay his own man.
Snæfellsnes
- 1864Snæfellsjökull, Snæfellsnes
From a Reykjavik library to the crater of Snæfellsjökull, and down into the earth.
Lisbon
- 2018
An Angolan father and son wait for a better life in the shacks on Lisbon’s outskirts.
- 2015
- 2008also Vienna
1551: an Indian elephant walks from Lisbon to Vienna, a wedding gift for an archduke.
Porto
- 2003
1800s: a boy in Porto befriends Midnight, an African healer brought there as a slave.
- 1997
A headless body in a Porto park, a Lisbon reporter, and the Guarda Nacional.
- 1862Cadeia da Relação, Porto
1800s: a student’s forbidden love ends in Porto’s prison and an exile’s ship.
Leiria
- 1875
A young priest in the cathedral town of Leiria, a pious girl, and the gossip of the town.
Copenhagen
- 2016
- 2016
- 2008
Department Q reopens the murder of a brother and sister, and a boarding-school clique.
Faroe Islands
- 1950Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Three musical brothers in old Tórshavn, against the sea, drink and the teetotallers.
Bornholm
- 1906also Copenhagen
A Swedish farmhand’s boy on Bornholm grows up to lead the workers of Copenhagen.
Marstal
- 2006
1848–1945: the sailors of Marstal, a small Danish port, and the women they leave behind.
Prague
- 2025
Robert Langdon in Prague, a missing scientist, and the city’s alchemists and golems.
- 2017
- 2017
Brno
- 2009Villa Tugendhat, Brno
1928–1990: a modernist glass villa in Brno and the lives it shelters.
Lapland
- 2021
- 2019
A woman has one Lapland summer to catch a magic pike, among swamp spirits and a cop.
- 2018
Tirana
- 2009
- 2003
- 2003
1980s: a May Day parade in Tirana, seen from the stands by a man who has lost his lover.
Albanian Alps
- 2018
- 2009Theth, Albanian Alps
On horseback the length of Albania, from the mountains of Theth to the Greek border.
- 1981
Gjirokastër
- 2015
- 2008
September 1943: the Germans enter the city, and a doctor asks their colonel to dinner.
- 1971
1940s: a boy watches Italians, Greeks and Germans take his steep stone city in turn.
Durrës
- 2021
Amsterdam
- 2020
- 2014Herengracht, Amsterdam
1686: a young Amsterdam bride receives a dollhouse that seems to predict her life.
- 2013also New York
A boy who survives a museum bomb keeps a stolen painting, from New York to Amsterdam.
Delft
- 2008
- 1999Oude Langendijk, Delft
1664: a young maid enters the household of the painter Vermeer in Delft.
Haarlem
- 1982
Brussels
- 2017European Quarter, Brussels
EU officials in Brussels plan a jubilee while a pig runs loose in the streets.
- 1943
- 1887
Flanders
- 2006
- 1983
- 1838Bruges, Flanders
1302: Bruges rises against the French, and the guilds win the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
Bruges
- 1968
- 1897Belfry, Bruges
The city carillonneur fights to keep Bruges dead and beautiful, against a new sea port.
- 1892Quai du Rosaire, Bruges · also Flanders
A widower wanders the silent canals of Bruges, haunted by his dead wife.
Antwerp
- 1933
Ghent
- 2020
Budapest
- 2010also Paris
1937–45: a Hungarian Jewish student between Paris and wartime Budapest.
- 2003
- 1986
1934: across the Hungarian plain on a borrowed horse, then Transylvania’s manor houses.
Great Hungarian Plain
- 2013
- 1985
Bucharest
- 2015
- 1996
- 1996
Transylvania
- 2009
An Englishman lives among the villagers and Roma of Transylvania and Maramureș.
- 1940
- 1934
Kyiv
- 2022
- 2020
- 2006
1941–1945: an SS officer’s war, from the ravine of Babi Yar to Berlin’s last days.
Odesa
- 2011
Two centuries of Odesa, from imperial port to Soviet city.
- 1931Moldavanka, Odesa
1900s: Benya Krik and the Jewish gangsters of Odesa’s Moldavanka district.
Lake Geneva
Sarajevo
- 2023
28 June 1914: a Sephardic apothecary in Sarajevo, the day the archduke comes to town.
- 2008
1992: a cellist plays for 22 days where a mortar killed 22 people in the siege.
- 2008
A Chicago writer of Bosnian origin travels back to Sarajevo, chasing an old killing.
Višegrad
- 2006
A boy from Višegrad remembers his town before the war, and returns as a man.
- 1945Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, Višegrad
1516–1914: four centuries of Višegrad, told through its Ottoman stone bridge.
Travnik
- 1945
1807–1814: the French and Austrian consuls in Travnik, a vizier’s town, under Napoleon.
Belfast
- 2023West Belfast, Belfast
Broke and drifting in West Belfast, a young man in a city still marked by the Troubles.
- 2019
East Belfast in a summer of riots, through two fathers who fear what their children are.
- 2018
Derry
- 1996
Bern
- 1972
- 1950
Graubünden
- 1958
- 1924Davos, Graubünden
1907–14: a young engineer visits a Davos sanatorium and stays seven years.
- 1881
Zurich
- 1954
Arrested at the border, a man insists he is not Stiller, the sculptor missing from Zurich.
Belgrade
Novi Sad
- 1976
- 1972
A Jewish survivor walks postwar Novi Sad, haunted by the family and friends he lost.
Zagreb
- 2015
- 2007
- 1988
Writers from East and West gather in Zagreb for a conference, and a body turns up.
Dalmatia
- 2010
Karelia
- 2018
A meteorite worth millions lands by a village on the Russian border, in its priest’s care.
- 1954
- 1911
Tallinn
- 2012
1941–66: Tallinn under Soviet, Nazi, then Soviet rule, through a man who serves all.
- 2010Town Hall Pharmacy, Tallinn
15th century: in medieval Tallinn, an apothecary hunts a killer through the town.
- 2010
Tallinn, 1419: Apothecary Melchior and deaths around a haunted house in the old town.
Western Estonia
- 2008
Danube
Vatican City
- 2016Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
The Pope is dead, and the cardinals are locked inside the Vatican to choose the next.
- 2000St Peter’s Square, Vatican City · also Rome
A symbologist races through Rome’s churches to save the Vatican’s conclave.
- 1914
Nicosia
- 2021also London
1974: a Greek and a Turkish Cypriot meet secretly in a Nicosia tavern.
- 1957
Famagusta
- 2014Varosha, Famagusta
1972–74: a couple’s glamorous hotel in Famagusta, as war approaches Cyprus.
- 1622Othello’s Tower, Famagusta
A Moorish general, his wife and Iago, posted to Venetian Cyprus against the Turks.
Riga
- 2015
- 1992
- 1904
A Riga professor is accused of a murder at a roadside inn, as Letts and Germans quarrel.
Vilnius
- 2008
Five centuries of Vilnius, seen through the eyes of travellers and outsiders.
- 1960Basanavičius Street, Vilnius · also Nice
1920s: in Wilno, today’s Vilnius, a mother raises her son for glory in France.
- 1945
South Wales Valleys
- 1939
A mining family in a South Wales valley, as the slag heap creeps down toward the house.
Swansea
- 1940Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea
Ten stories of a Swansea boyhood: farms, schoolyards, the beach, a first newspaper job.
Caerleon
- 1907also London
A boy of Caerleon dreams of its Roman fort, then starves as a writer in London.
Guernsey
- 2008
1946: letters between a London writer and islanders who read through the Occupation.
- 1981
An old Guernseyman tells his whole life on the island, through two wars and the tourists.
- 1866
A fisherman alone on a reef off Guernsey, against the tide, the wind and an octopus.
Chișinău
- 2018
1903: three days of violence in Kishinev, and how they shaped the century after.
- 2000
A bet sends a British comedian to Chișinău to beat the Moldovan football team at tennis.
- 1904
Pristina
- 2019
- 2014also Helsinki
A young Kosovan in Helsinki, and his mother’s married life in Yugoslav Kosovo.
- 2003
An American teaches English in postwar Pristina, with The Old Man and the Sea.
Skopje
- 2014
- 2012
Valletta
- 1973
1940–42: a humble priest shelters Valletta’s people in the catacombs during the siege.
- 1963
- 1961
1565: the Knights hold Malta against the Ottomans, and Valletta is built after.
Minsk
- 2017
- 2014
Luxembourg
- 2012
- 2010
Bratislava
- 2008Petržalka, Bratislava
Four struggling artists drink and drift in Petržalka, Bratislava’s concrete suburb.
- 1991
Vaduz
- 2002
A British writer follows Liechtenstein’s footballers through a hopeless World Cup bid.
- 1955
Ljubljana
- 2010
- 1998
After a failed suicide, a young woman wakes in a Ljubljana asylum with days to live.
Monaco
- 2004
- 1955Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
A clerk’s honeymoon in Monte Carlo turns into a hunt for a system to beat the casino.
Sofia
- 2020
- 2016National Palace of Culture, Sofia
An American teacher in Sofia and his troubled desire for a young hustler.
Andorra la Vella
- 1997
- 1961
Jersey
- 1964Les Augrès Manor, Jersey
Durrell’s first years running his own zoo at Les Augrès Manor, Jersey, animal by animal.
San Marino
- 1976
Podgorica
- 2015
1978: a girl grows up in Titograd, today’s Podgorica, and keeps coming back.
Lake Ohrid
- 2020also Epirus
Lakes Ohrid and Prespa, where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, and their wars.