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...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
There’s a body in the water – and she’s wearing your clothes… Impulsive and intrepid psychotherapist, Juliet Grey, can’t resist responding to an anonymous text message telling her to go to Hammersmith Bridge at dawn. But it isn’t simply...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Mei, the protagonist, is an investigator. A friend of her mother, known as ‘Uncle Chen’, asks her to track down a Han-dynasty jade that vanished from a museum during the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. Was the jade...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
An incredible look at the history of this erstwhile penal colonly, well written and rivetting
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