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The Art of Travel

The Art of Travel
  • Author(s): Alain de Botton
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Few activities seem to promise is as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where...

The artificial Silk Girl

The artificial Silk Girl
  • Author(s): Irmgard Keun
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Axeman’s Jazz

The Axeman’s Jazz
  • Author(s): Ray Celestin
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919

New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes . . .  New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer – The Axeman – stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him . ....

The Backpacking Housewife

The Backpacking Housewife
  • Author(s): Janice Horton
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there’s only one thing to do – grab...

The Ballad of a Small Player

The Ballad of a Small Player
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Macau (Macao)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’ His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days...

The Bandit Queens

The Bandit Queens
  • Author(s): Parini Shroff
  • Location(s): Uttar Pradesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife… Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a...

The Baobab Beach Retreat

The Baobab Beach Retreat
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Tanzania, Cheltenham, Zanzibar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tanzania. A place to be happy, to sleep uncovered with the sound of waves crashing to the shore. For Connie Stone, it’s a place to heal. When Connie leaves behind a cheating husband and heartache in the UK for...

The Beach Holiday

The Beach Holiday
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A somebody. A nobody. A love story waiting to be written . . . All aspiring novelist Honor has ever wanted is to be successful. It’s the only way she can impress the father who abandoned her, the boyfriend...

The Beach Hut

The Beach Hut
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Woolacombe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

On Everdene Sands, a row of beach huts holds the secrets of the families who own them – secrets of unrequited love, plain old-fashioned lust, childhood dreams and long-forgotten hopes… ‘FOR SALE: a rare opportunity to purchase a beach...

The Beekeeper’s Daughter

The Beekeeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Dorset, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1970s

Dorset, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future – until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and alone. Alone, that...

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