- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second World War
The cups and saucers on the dresser begin to rattle faintly, as though a tremulous hand is holding them. The water in the washing-up bowl shivers all over its surface. There’s a distant droning, something at first more felt...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965
One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...
- Location(s): Bristol, Havana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s and 2012
Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to...
The Red Brick Cellars: A Tolosa Mystery
- Location(s): Toulouse
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murdered mayor. A second body reduced to skeleton and dust. The public display so horrific that the police are baffled. Everyone assumes uninterested heir Louis Saint-Blancat will finally settle down and focus on the politics of Toulouse, France....
- Location(s): Abruzzo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From 1940 to present day
The sensitive and powerful story of the love between a mother and her daughter, a love “gone wrong from the start”. When Esperia exhibits the symptoms of a disease that robs her of her memory and the very sense...
The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas
- Location(s): Ayrshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas is the timeless story of the quest for pop immortality. When a young Ayrshire band miraculously hits the big time with the smash hit record of 1984, international stardom beckons. That’s...
Let Me Tell You About The Man I knew
- Location(s): Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1880s
Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains among wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and...
- Location(s): Huntingfield
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
Plucky and headstrong Mildred Holland revelled in the eight years she and her husband, the vicar William Holland, spent travelling 1840s Europe, finding inspiration in recording beautiful artistic treasures and collecting exotic artifacts. But William’s new posting in a...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Volendam
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old when their family was killed. The sisters were accused of murdering the lead singer of a world-famous pop band in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam, believing him to be...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is the story of three women eating our way across India in search of adventure, elephants, temples, palaces, western toilets, monkeys, the perfect paratha…and the kindness of Indian strangers. Despite blizzards, canceled flights, de-icing delays, and an adjacent...
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