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Portrait in Sepia

Portrait in Sepia
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • 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...

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Portrait of an Unknown Woman
  • Author(s): Camille de Peretti, Hildegarde Serle (translator)
  • 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

Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • 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...

Ports of Call

Ports of Call
  • Author(s): Amin Maalouf
  • 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...

Portuguese Paradise box set

Portuguese Paradise box set
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

BOOK 1: THE HOUSE THAT ALICE BUILT When Alice Dorothy Matthews’s insufferable ex says he wants to sell the house she’s worked so hard to make a home, she does something spontaneous for the first time in many years....

Portuguese Pastoral

Portuguese Pastoral
  • Author(s): Janet Olearski
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

Central Portugal, in the year of Covid 2021. Fiona is penning a novel – or, at least, trying to – while she corresponds and converses at length on social media with her former work colleagues Claire and Sharon, both...

Possession

Possession
  • Author(s): A S Byatt
  • Location(s): Brittany, England
  • Genre(s): Romance

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail...

Postcards from Goa

Postcards from Goa
  • Author(s): Simran Silva
  • 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...

Postcards from Ladakh

Postcards from Ladakh
  • Author(s): Ajay Jain
  • Location(s): Ladakh
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): c. 2009

Ladakh, circa 2009 You never have a sense of déjà vu in Ladakh. No place looks the same again. No moment repeats itself here. There is always something new to discover about the land and its people. Birds and...

Postcards from No Man’s Land

Postcards from No Man’s Land
  • Author(s): Aidan Chambers
  • 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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