- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
A tragic family event reveals devastating news that rips apart Bella’s comfortable existence. Embarking on a personal journey to uncover the truth, she faces a series of traumatic discoveries that take her to the ruggedly beautiful Cornish coast, where...
In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond
- Location(s): Assisi, Rome, Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on how love and loss shape places and spaces, all through the lens of four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with...
In the Company of the Courtesan
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns – brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics – two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as...
- Location(s): Rajasthan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
India Treasures is a monumental work of fiction covering the sweep of Indian history. A search through palaces and a maze-like fortress for a Maharaja’s legendary hidden treasure weaves together stories of danger and romance, and of spiritual and...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Novella
- Era(s): 1983
In autumn 1983, Henk van der Pol is twenty-three years old and just one week out of police training. His dream is to be admitted to the elite detective bureau of Amsterdam’s police force, but he knows he needs...
- Location(s): Stoke on Trent
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
“Let me out! Please!’ I shouted, banging on the door. How had I got here? What day was it? I couldn’t remember anything. But I knew I had become the fifth woman to be abducted.” As my eyes adjust...
- Location(s): Pilbara
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Desperate to get away from her family’s expectations of success in love and in work, Dr Beth Harding leaves Sydney behind and takes a locum job at Iron Junction – a mining town in the distant Pilbara. With the...
- Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic,...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Dublin, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
He cheated, but only once! Evie Dexter has promised to forgive and forget her fiancé Rob – and her efforts to absolve his sins are paying off: in the past ten days she’s only called him a two-timing love...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set in the South of France, the first in the Jacquot series follows Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot’s investigation into a series of disturbing killings, where the female victims are always left submerged in water. Ex-French National Rugby Squad player...
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