- Location(s): Chile
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): End of 19th century
Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance. ‘Portrait in Sepia’ is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga...
- Location(s): Italy, United States (USA), Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century to modern
A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt’s ‘Portrait of a Lady’ was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year...
Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man
- Location(s): Massif Central, Suffolk
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and present
1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance. 2014: now in...
- Location(s): Montpellier, Beirut, Haifa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Ossyane, a young Lebanese of both aristocratic Ottoman and humble Armenian origins, goes to Montpellier, France, to study away from the burden of his liberal father’s revolutionary ambitions. World War II breaks out and Ossyane is drawn into the...
- Location(s): Goa, Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1945-47, 1998
Goa, India 1945 India sought to reclaim her land from 400 years of Portuguese rule. Amidst the turmoil, and hatred, a friendship is born between two people from opposing sides. As the forbidden friendship deepens, could anything destroy the...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): WW2 and Modern
Two craftily interwoven stories, separated by 50 years in time, make upthis emotionally and intellectually challenging novel. Set in Holland, one story tells of the passionate love between a young Dutch woman and Jacob Todd, a wounded English soldier:...










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