Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
- Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are...
- Location(s): Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): 1976-2004
‘Islands’ is an emotion charged story of love, secrets and regrets, set against the real-life events of 2008 that shocked the beautiful island of Jersey. Katherine, is a successful business woman living and working in London. She’s estranged from...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A poignant novel of the love that unites us and the secrets that drive us apart, Islands is New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons at her lyrical best—a glorious evocation of the people and the place she...
- Location(s): Channel Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1940s and contemporary
When German contemporary art gallery owner Anne Briest gets betrayed by her fiancé, she travels to the British Channel Islands to forget. Yet, she finds anything but peace of mind. How are an art fraud, a fake cholera grave,...
- Location(s): Borneo, Bath, Dublin, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1865 onwards
She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th century
A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of our bestselling historical novelists. When armed conflict drives a wedge between Maori and Pakeha, not everyone can choose sides easily. For Isla McKinnon, the choices...
- Location(s): France, North America
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
In sixteenth-century France, as the heiress to an aristocratic fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of privilege. Then she is orphaned, and her enigmatic and volatile guardian squanders her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Yorkshire, 1983. Margaret Thatcher is in Number 10, ‘Thriller’ is on the radio and Lorraine Quick is having to put plans to tour with her band on hold due to work. With her expertise in psychometric testing, she is...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950's
ISTANBUL DREAMING is a gripping novel set in 1950s Turkey about a young woman who flees an arranged marriage to pursue independence in Istanbul, where she finds forbidden love with an American airman. It’s inspired by the author’s parents’...
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names–Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul–resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of...
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