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Liberty Silk

Liberty Silk
  • Author(s): Kate Beaufoy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965

One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...

On a Night Like this

On a Night Like this
  • Author(s): Ellen Sussman
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

They met in high school, but had nothing in common: Blair Clemens, a Bohemian chick who kept to herself, and Luke Bellingham, the golden boy – rich handsome, and destined for greatness. Now, years later, Luke has fulfilled his...

Orange County Noir

Orange County Noir
  • Author(s): Gary Phillips
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories

These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver...

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe
  • Author(s): Jon Teckman
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...

ROUGE

ROUGE
  • Author(s): Mona Awad
  • Location(s): La Jolla, Southern California
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her...

Somewhere in Time

Somewhere in Time
  • Author(s): Richard Matheson
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back a century

Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his...

Summer Nights

Summer Nights
  • Author(s): Allie Spencer
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

There’s nothing quite like a holiday with your boyfriend. Flora Fielding can’t wait for Barney to join her in San Francisco so they can begin their dream holiday. Until Barney dumps her, leaving her stranded. Luckily, Flora’s cousin Bella...

The Buddha in the Attic

The Buddha in the Attic
  • Author(s): Julie Otsuka
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

A group of Japanese “mail order” brides arrive in California in the 1920s – from their journey to America, through marriage, work, childbirth and motherhood, until they and their entire communities are rounded up at the beginning of the...

The Confession

The Confession
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2000s

One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...

The Man in the Seventh Row

The Man in the Seventh Row
  • Author(s): Brian Pendreigh
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...

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