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A Seaside Affair

A Seaside Affair
  • Author(s): Fern Britton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When the residents of the Cornish seaside town of Trevay discover that their much-loved theatre is about to be taken over by coffee chain, Café au Lait, they are up in arms. It is up to Penny Leighton, hotshot...

A Second Chance

A Second Chance
  • Author(s): Lucy James
  • Location(s): Seoul, South Korea
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A plane touches down in South Korea and Grace Carmichael steps off it into an unknown and challenging world. The fast moving pace of life in Seoul is both scary and exhilarating. Her new job as an English teacher...

A Spell in Provence

A Spell in Provence
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

After losing her job in England, Amy Carter uses her redundancy payment to start a new life in France, turning Bellefontaine, an overgrown Provençal farmhouse, into a successful hotel. Though she has big plans for her new home, none...

A Stone’s Throw

A Stone’s Throw
  • Author(s): Fiona Shaw
  • Location(s): England, Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

A multi-layered story of three generations of one family and is set in England and Kenya during and after the Second World War. Meg Brya is sailing to Kenya to be with her fiance. On the boat ride out...

A Summer at Sea

A Summer at Sea
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She has a career as a midwife that she loves . She enjoys living on her own as a single woman. But she’s also feels it’s time for a change and a spot of some sea air. So when...

A Summer in Europe

A Summer in Europe
  • Author(s): Marilyn Brant
  • Location(s): Europe, Florence
  • Genre(s): Romance, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

On her thirtieth birthday, Gwendolyn Reese receives an unexpected present from her widowed Aunt Bea: a grand tour of Europe in the company of Bea’s Sudoku and Mahjongg Club. The prospect isn’t entirely appealing. But when the gift she...

A Thousand Days in Venice

A Thousand Days in Venice
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A love story centred around an older couple (the author’s story), and lots of food and recipes throughout the book, as she searches for the best ingredients along the atmospheric canals and byways and piazze.

A Vintage Affair

A Vintage Affair
  • Author(s): Isabel Wolff
  • Location(s): England, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Do fairytale dresses bring fairytale endings? Every dress has a history, so does Phoebe… Phoebe always dreamt of opening her own vintage dress shop. She imagined every detail, from the Vivienne Westwood bustiers hanging next to satin gowns, to...

A Walk to Remember

A Walk to Remember
  • Author(s): Nicholas Sparks
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s

Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie...

A Woman of Courage

A Woman of Courage
  • Author(s): Rita Bradshaw
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...

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