- Location(s): Schöneberg, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 2009
2009. Berlin. Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems. Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before in her hometown in Florida. Hailey is rich, obsessed...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2012 - 2016
After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 – just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk...
- Location(s): Florence, Fiesole
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary, looking back 21 years
There are summers that could change your life. There are summers that could end it. Meet Rachel. An unassuming young woman from a quiet London suburb. Picture the scene: A summer job at the beautiful Villa Medici in the...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Penzance
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A café in Cornwall, October 2014. A frightening phone call to ROSE from her ex-husband Tom. ELLIE, their daughter, has not returned from her gap year. Is living in India helping the Untouchables. Terrified for her daughter’s safety she...
Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...
- Location(s): Inverness
- Genre(s): Time Slip, Romance
- Era(s): 1940s back to 1740s
1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743,...
- Location(s): The Sudan, Egypt, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present looking back
On an overnight train to Innsbruck, ex-lovers Richard and Frances meet each other by chance many years after their mysterious separation on a train journey through the blistering heat and vast empty expanses of the Sudanese desert. As they...
- Location(s): Morecambe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing eighty, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambe’s 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognise the tenderness and heartbreak...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1966
In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can’t quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half 20th century
An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papillon, was...
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