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Outlander

Outlander
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • 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,...

Overnight to Innsbruck

Overnight to Innsbruck
  • Author(s): Denyse Woods
  • 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...

Owl Song at Dawn

Owl  Song at Dawn
  • Author(s): Emma Claire Sweeney
  • 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...

Palace of the Drowned

Palace of the Drowned
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • 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...

Papillon

Papillon
  • Author(s): Henri Charrière
  • 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...

Paradise Valley

Paradise Valley
  • Author(s): C J Box
  • Location(s): North Dakota, Montana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

He’s the Lizard King – a serial killer who haunts North America’s highways and truck stops, preying on runaways and prostitutes. After years on the road, he’s tired. The net is closing around him. Its time to end it....

Paris Mon Amour

Paris Mon Amour
  • Author(s): Isabel Costello
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Alexandra discovers that her husband Philippe is having an affair, she can’t believe he’d risk losing the love that has transformed both their lives. Still in shock, Alexandra finds herself powerfully attracted to a much younger man. Jean-Luc...

Paris Spring

Paris Spring
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng – secret servant at the British embassy – the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life....

Park Avenue Summer

Park Avenue Summer
  • Author(s): Renée Rosen
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Renee Rosen draws readers into the glamorous New York City of 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown – shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all...

Passage from Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #6)

Passage from Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #6)
  • Author(s): Harriet Steel
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Inspector de Silva and Jane embark on a cruise to Egypt to visit the pyramids, excited at the prospect of two weeks of sun, sea and relaxation. With Nuala, and de Silva’s duties as a police officer, far behind...

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