José Pizarro’s Spanish Flavours
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): 2017
Following on from Seasonal Spanish Food, Pizarro takes a closer look at the regions of Spain and the exceptional local ingredients that make each area so special. With these ingredients, Pizarro uses his knowledge and flair to create alluring...
- Location(s): Madeira
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Stand by your beliefs – even if it means going to the end of the Earth. By standing up for his principles, horse farrier Joseph Barnaby lost everything. Now, when a personal vendetta goes too deep to fight, he...
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Meet Josephine, the most loveable mischief-maker in Barbados, in a magical, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology. “A heart-wrenching adventure with big laughs and well-earned surprises.” -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1794 - 1810
In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she’ll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napoleon Bonaparte, become...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
In Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet gives us a deliciously dark, suspenseful debut novel in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith. Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home....
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1969
At the center of this engaging “un-love” story is Li An, a smart and strong-willed Malaysian woman of Chinese descent. The conflicts that surround Li An in the politically charged atmosphere of Kuala Lumpur in 1969 intersect with her...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Artist Aggie is running out of money and ideas for a new style of art. There is only one solution. Aggie and her 16-year-old son, Miles, head off to France on a road trip. For Aggie, it is a...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
GET READY TO EXPLORE JAPAN LIKE NEVER BEFORE… Beyond its neon-lit megacities lies a nation made up of forty-seven distinct prefectures. Each one has its own story to tell, shaped by centuries of squabbling lords, impenetrable topography and fierce...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1973
It was an unique journey – a 600 mile trek on foot around Cyprus, in the last year of the island’s peace. Colin Thubron writes about it and with great immediacy, intertwining myth, history and personal anecdote. What emerges...
Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
- Genre(s): Animals, Adventure
- Era(s): early 2000s
Scientists call them “Inia geoffrensis,” an ancient species of toothed whale whose origin dates back about 15 million years. To the local people of the Amazon, pink river dolphins are “botos,” shape shifters that, in the guise of human...
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