- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1980s
It begins with a troubling encounter on a flight to Venice. She is a Roman aristocrat and art dealer on the search for undervalued paintings and he a mysterious tour guide. She is invited to cosmopolitan parties by Venetian...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is the place where passions are aroused, senses inflamed, and lovers fall into each other’s arms. It all appears to unfold like magic – but I will tell you what really happens. Rome – glorious, eternal, intoxicating. Could...
- Location(s): London, New South Wales, Norfolk
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1800-1830
Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child....
- Location(s): Hokitika
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1800s
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
Ten years ago a gunman opened fire in a parking lot, killing her parents. No one ever found out why. But a trip to Rome might reveal the truth. Thirty-year-old Kelly Roberts receives a mysterious envelope from her late...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
St Christopher’s College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros – a group therapist struggling through her private grief – it’s where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it’s the tragic scene of...
- Location(s): Cyprus, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960 - 1990
Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s… the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible thing, war. Against this backdrop of war and violence, the island’s inhabitants make the best...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an argument between two...
- Location(s): Harper's Ferry
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s, Modern
When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbors, the Martins. Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling...
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