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Pains Hill

Pains Hill
  • Author(s): Margaret Buntrock
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Psychological Thriller, Time Slip
  • Era(s): Eighteenth century and 1990s.

Pains Hill is a dual timeline, psychological thriller set in Pains Hill Park, a romantic landscape garden in Cobham, Surrey, England. The 18th century narrative tells the unique story of the garden with its lake, fantastical follies and crystal...

Painted Faces

Painted Faces
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): Budapest, Hollywood, Hungary, Kansas
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1938

From the Best-selling Author… Lights! Camera! Hollywood! In 1938, nineteen-year-old Vivian Harris’s mother wants her to get married and have a family, but Vivian’s seduced by someone else entirely: Hollywood. Yearning to trade in farm dust for stardust, she...

Painted Ghosts

Painted Ghosts
  • Author(s): Neil Beardmore
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Starting in the early 70s and leading up to 2010

Three women have personal reasons to head from England to modern day India, each on a quest to rebuild their past and family. Daphne has strange experiences at the Buddhist caves of Ajanta; Stella is on a painting holiday...

Painted Hives

Painted Hives
  • Author(s): Jay Ebben
  • Location(s): Slovenia, Ljubljana
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A fast-moving page turner in the YA category, this book will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers regardless of age. Travel to Slovenia and experience the intriguing adventure of Wilber Jansen: The strange and vivid dream that Wilber...

Painter to the King

Painter to the King
  • Author(s): Amy Sackville
  • Location(s): Spain, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not...

Painting Death

Painting Death
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Verona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family he has now become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it’s not enough. He comes up with a plan to...

Painting Paris

Painting Paris
  • Author(s): John Simmons
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1908 and 1937

Paris 1908. In Montmartre painters are creating works that will change the way we see life. Some do it better than others, some fall victims to the pursuit of love as well as art. But it’s a time to...

Palace Council

Palace Council
  • Author(s): Stephen L Carter
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): 1950s & 1960s

Stephen Carter, best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, returns with a riveting drama set within the turbulent era of the fifties and sixties – the violent Anti-war demonstrations, the Civil Rights Movement and...

Palace in the Old Village

Palace in the Old Village
  • Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From ‘Morocco’s greatest living author’ (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he...

Palace Of Desire: Cairo Trilogy 2

Palace Of Desire: Cairo Trilogy 2
  • Author(s): Naguib Mahfouz
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The sensual and provocative second volume in the Cairo Trilogy, Palace Of Desire follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920’s and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having...

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