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The Greek for Love

The Greek for Love
  • Author(s): James Chatto
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly blue Greek sea. Instead James...

The Greek Holiday

The Greek Holiday
  • Author(s): Maeve Haran
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four old university friends, Dora, Penny, Nell and Moira, reunite to relive that first hippy-dippy trip together to a beautiful, unspoilt, romantic Greek island looking for sun, sand and sea. But it’s not just about going back to when...

The Green Unknown: Travels in the Khasi Hills

The Green Unknown: Travels in the Khasi Hills
  • Author(s): Patrick Rogers
  • Location(s): Meghalaya, India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Green Unknown is about walking, without a map or a plan, across the Khasi Hills in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya—a place of jungle canyons and thousand-foot waterfalls, where it rains more than any other inhabited place...

The Guest House By The Sea

The Guest House By The Sea
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they’re lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn’t know they needed… Esme has run the guest house for as...

The Gustav Sonata

The Gustav Sonata
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From late 1940s

What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in ‘neutral’ Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav’s father...

The Heat of Betrayal

The Heat of Betrayal
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be – passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself...

The Hemlock Cure

The Hemlock Cure
  • Author(s): Joanne Burn
  • Location(s): Eyam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1660s

In a wholly original take on the Eyam story, Joanne Burn’s elegant prose, rich in authentic detail, results in a rewarding and timely read — SARAH BURTON, author of ‘The Strange Adventures of H’ Lyrically written, The Hemlock Cure...

The Henna Artist

The Henna Artist
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Jaipur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark...

The Hero’s Way

The Hero’s Way
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2019

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy’s mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian...

The Hidden Child

The Hidden Child
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Surrey, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1928 to 1930

London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it...

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