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Shock Therapy

Shock Therapy
  • Author(s): Angus Blair
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Ireland, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henry Bradbury’s life is in free fall. His marriage has failed, he’s about to lose his City job, and he now finds himself dangerously out of his depth as an unlikely agent of the British secret intelligence services. His...

Burke and the Lines of Torres Vedras

Burke and the Lines of Torres Vedras
  • Author(s): Tom Williams
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Peninsular War (1810)

James Burke, after years of spying for the British, is sent to Lisbon as a spy catcher. To the north of the city, the British are building a line of defences designed to stop and trap the French. But...

Two Nights in Lisbon

Two Nights in Lisbon
  • Author(s): Chris Pavone
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You think you know a person… Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone – no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the...

By Force of Circumstance

By Force of Circumstance
  • Author(s): J G Harlond
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century (English Civil War)

“For sale: the English Crown Jewels” Ludo da Portovenere returns to his former piratical ways when the Queen of England commissions him to sell priceless gems to raise money for the Royalist cause during the Civil War. But will...

The Colours of Death

The Colours of Death
  • Author(s): Patricia Marques
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2021

The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But according to witnesses, he may not have done this...

The Villa of Dreams

The Villa of Dreams
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seren Maddison left behind a rainy Britain to follow her dreams and live and work in Lisbon.The vibrancy, the beautiful scenery and the sunshine, made her fall in love and she knew, instantly, that it would be her forever...

All The Names

All The Names
  • Author(s): José Saramago
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon’s central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform...

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...

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
  • Author(s): Richard Zimler
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1500s

The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of...

Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda
  • Author(s): José Saramago
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her...

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