- Location(s): Avignon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 14th century
Richly engaging historical adventure in the vein of The Winter Palace and The Malice of Fortune. Muse is the story of the charismatic woman who was the inspiration behind Petrarch’s sublime love poetry. Solange Le Blanc begins life in...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th century
Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain’s dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and counterpoint: loyalty and deception…tenderness and violence…community and alienation…peace and conflict…”Music & Silence.” Peter Claire is an English...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1750s-1860s
Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn’t recognise her, but she remembers him at once. Not that she plans to mention it....
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Vietnam War onward
Harrowing but a clear reminder of US intervention in SE Asia politics. Follows a family escaping after Pol Pot becomes the leader in Cambodia.
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod, London, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
He’s never been kissed… Shy electrician Jamie McDougall has never set foot outside Scotland, or his comfort zone. Then beautiful and vivacious Sam gatecrashes his world, and he’s unwillingly swept up in her grand plan. But though Jamie has...
- Location(s): San Domino, Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Leading up to WW2
Francesco has a memory of his father from early childhood, a night when life for his family changed: their name, their story, their living place. From that night, he has vowed to protect his mother and to follow the...
- Location(s): Mustique
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world’s most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
My 1001 Nights: Tales and Adventures from Morocco
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Adventure, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
When Alice Morrison headed out to Morocco, it was to take on one of the most daunting challenges: to run in the famous Marathon des Sables. Little did she expect to end up living there. But as soon as...
- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. Day to day, they live in an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, tend a...
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