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300 Days of Sun

300 Days of Sun
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Faro, Lisbon, The Algarve
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past where two...

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon
  • Author(s): Pascal Mercier
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Raimund Gregorius is a Swiss middle-aged teacher of ancient languages in Bern. His routine id disturbed when he has a strange encounter with a Portuguese woman. He learns of the work of Amadeu Prado and is energised into travelling...

A Small Death in Lisbon

A Small Death in Lisbon
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Berlin, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1990s

Europe, 1941: Lisbon is one of the world’s tensest cities, and as the Nazis and Allies jostle for power, Iberia becomes a fulcrum for the menace that is about to engulf Europe. Klaus Felsen, torn from his Berlin factory...

Chemical Cocktail

Chemical Cocktail
  • Author(s): Fiona Erskine
  • Location(s): Brazil, Portugal
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jaq Silver is back with a bang in this high-octane third novel in the series When Jaq Silver’s mother dies, she is handed a poisoned chalice. An inheritance more valuable to her than she could have imagined. Travelling from...

Chipset

Chipset
  • Author(s): Lior Samson
  • Location(s): Florida, Madeira, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and WW2

What could be dangerous about the idyllic, picturesque island of Madeira? Madeira, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic, would seem to be a perfect destination for technology journalist Karl Lustig and his wife, Shira Markham. But, Karl, on his...

Distant Music

Distant Music
  • Author(s): Lee Langley
  • Location(s): London, Madeira
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1420s-2000s

Distant Music comprises four different stories, spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The book starts out in Madeira in 1429, with the backdrop of Portugal as a marine empire, Christopher Columbus features briefly, anti-Semitism is a recurring...

Epiphany Jones

Epiphany Jones
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Cannes, Mexico, Oporto, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who...

Hello, Again

Hello, Again
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Aldeburgh, Barcelona, Guernsey, Hamburg, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Philippa Taylor (Pepper to her friends) has big dreams. When she closes her eyes, she can picture exactly who she ought to be. The problem is, it’s about as far away from her real life in a small coastal...

No More Secrets

No More Secrets
  • Author(s): Tricia Maw
  • Location(s): Devon, Portugal
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Charlotte Pascoe returns to Devon to work with her father in the family boatyard, she is horrified to discover that he is about to sell the site to Raphael da Silva, a property developer. Unable to pursue her...

Pereira Maintains

Pereira Maintains
  • Author(s): Antonio Tabucchi
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1938

A short novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi who died March 2012. Salazar’s government at the time was sympathetic to fascism, in similar vein to Mussolini and Franco. Pereira is a journalist and is asked to set up...

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