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Alexis grows up on Mauritius at the end of the nineteenth century, and when his family is ruined he spends years searching for a pirate's treasure on the island of Rodrigues.
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Tales of the South Pacific
Linked stories of American servicemen, nurses and islanders in the South Pacific during the Second World War, as the forces build up for the invasion of the Solomons.
Onitsha
In 1948, twelve-year-old Fintan sails with his Italian mother from France to join the English father he has never met in Onitsha, a trading town on the Niger.
Desert
Two stories braided together: the Blue Men of the Sahara driven north by French colonial troops in 1909 and 1910, and Lalla, a girl descended from them, growing up decades later in a shantytown on the Moroccan coast.
Annie John
Annie John grows up in Antigua adored by her mother, until at twelve she begins to grow up and the love turns into a war.
Beware of Pity
A young Austro-Hungarian lieutenant's thoughtless kindness to a paralysed girl entangles him in an impossible engagement on the eve of the First World War.
The Brothers
In Manaus, the Lebanese-Brazilian twins Yaqub and Omar, sent apart as boys, grow into rivals, as told by the son of the family's maid.
Pan
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, living alone with his dog in a forest hut in northern Norway one summer, falls for Edvarda, the moody daughter of the local trader, and the two torment each other.
Nostromo
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tomé silver mine becomes the prize in a revolution, and the incorruptible dockworker Nostromo is trusted to hide its silver.
Demian
A young man in pre-war Germany is guided by a mysterious inner voice through a Jungian journey of self-realisation, rebelling against his father and his era.
Paradise
Yusuf, a twelve-year-old boy in East Africa early in the twentieth century, is handed over by his father to the merchant Aziz to pay a debt, and travels with his caravans into the interior.
Moon Palace
In 1969, Columbia student Marco Stanley Fogg inherits his late uncle's library, reads and sells it book by book until he is starving in Central Park, and a job as companion to a rich, blind, cantankerous old man named Thomas Effing leads him to his own family's secrets.
Mister Pip
On Bougainville during the civil war of the 1990s, Mr Watts, the island's last white man, starts teaching the children from Great Expectations, and thirteen-year-old Matilda falls into it.