- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, ‘one of the best novels about growing up fast’. Sally Jay Gorce...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life...
- Location(s): Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
As Jayne and Rajiv holiday in Krabi, Jayne can’t stop her mind straying to thoughts of the future: a successful business, perhaps even a honeymoon. Who would have thought she could be so content? But then their tour guide’s...
The Ebb (The Lady of the Pier)
- Location(s): Brighton, Corfu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s and 1980s
When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… CORFU, 1987 On a long holiday with her grandparents, Sofia Aspioti meets Danny Markson, a charming flirt who makes her laugh. Although she tries to keep him...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Venice
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
The Echoes of Love is a beautiful, poignant story of lost love and betrayal, unleashed passion and learning to love again, whatever the price. Venetia Aston-Montague has escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother s...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920/21
They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education...
- Location(s): Guangdong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change. Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in...
- Location(s): London
- Era(s): 1940s
Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another and love of God. The affair in...
The Enduring Influence of Ken Potts
- Location(s): Lundy Island, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
When four singers discover a curious vocal technique called The Fifth Voice, they reveal a prize that changes their lives. But the death of Ken, their inspirational coach and mentor, leaves them grief-stricken and uncertain about the future. Vince,...
- Location(s): Nottinghamshire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
I can see her through the glass door. She’s smaller in real life than I expected. She looks the exact opposite of the type of woman that might murder her husband. Everyone’s heard of Simone Fischer. The young mother...
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