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Daughter of Fortune

Daughter of Fortune
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): California, Chile
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling...

Maya’s Notebook

Maya’s Notebook
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Chiloé, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. But at school, the teenage Maya finds herself drawn towards the wrong crowd. Before she knows what’s...

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Chile)

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Chile)
  • Author(s): Katy Colins
  • Location(s): Chile
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Paradise Georgia has just been offered the opportunity of a lifetime! She’ll be starring in a TV adventure travel show that will put her and Ben’s business well and truly on the map. But Georgia’s not quite...

Swedish Tango

Swedish Tango
  • Author(s): Alyson Richman
  • Location(s): Chile, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Octavio Ribeiro is a rising movie star in Chile when, at the request of famed poet Pablo Neruda, he agrees to serve as a media trainer in the presidential campaign of Salvador Allende. This involvement exposes Octavio and his...

By Night in Chile

By Night in Chile
  • Author(s): Roberto Bolaño
  • Location(s): Chile, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes...

The Butterfly Box

The Butterfly Box
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Chile, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Federica Campione adores her father. No matter that Ramon, a distinguished traveller and writer, spends months away from their home on the exotic Chilean coast; as soon as he’s back, his daughter has eyes for no one but him....

A Long Petal of the Sea

A Long Petal of the Sea
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Spain, Chile
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy...

Along the Inca Road

Along the Inca Road
  • Author(s): Karin Muller
  • Location(s): Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

In its heyday, the Royal Inca Highway was an extraordinary feat of engineering. Meriting comparisons to the Great Wall of China, legend has it that the route was built not by men, but by the gods. An essential component...

Andean Express

Andean Express
  • Author(s): Juan de Recacoechea
  • Location(s): Bolivia, Chile
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A mystery following a tragic overnight train journey in 1952 from Bolivia to Chile, presenting a moving environment at once carnivalesque and sinister. Exploring the social tensions characteristic of Bolivian society, this is a wonderful crime novel that is...

Atacama

Atacama
  • Author(s): Joe Moss
  • Location(s): Chile
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four carefree twenty-somethings. A desolate desert in Chile. An ancient Incan curse. The Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, is home to many exotic customs and primitive traditions—as well as deadly curses. When reckless Dai removes an ancient...

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