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Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
  • Author(s): Jefferson Chase (Translator), Oliver Hilmes
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1936

For sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world’s attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games. Seen through the eyes of a cast of characters – Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, athletes and...

The Palma Foundation

The Palma Foundation
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Location(s): Palma de Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To the outside world, the Palma Foundation is a charitable and benevolent business network formed in the post Franco era by four Mallorcan businessmen. However, with growing suspicion of bribery and corruption, DI Lori Garcia is tasked with investigating...

The Sóller Solution

The Sóller Solution
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Back for the third time in the 3R series, the team have to deal with three seemingly unconnected coincidences as they answer a call for help from Sam’s old boss. When Sam Martínez gets a call from Tony Theakston,...

The Pollensa Connection

The Pollensa Connection
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Location(s): Pollensa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The 3R team are back in action in the second of the series! Lily Green is scared stiff. Kidnapped after she leaves her work in Pollensa, Mallorca, she doesn’t know why this has happened and even when drugged and...

Secret Potsdam

Secret Potsdam
  • Author(s): Manuel Roy
  • Location(s): Potsdam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

Let Secret Potsdam guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Potsdam guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants...

We Are Together Because

We Are Together Because
  • Author(s): Kerry Andrew
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father’s house in the south of France. The boys don’t really know him, and they don’t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going...

Valencia For 91 Days

Valencia For 91 Days
  • Author(s): Jürgen Horn, Michael Powell
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Valencia For 91 Days is collection of stories, photography and advice from three months spent in one of Spain’s best cities. Mike and Jürgen are travelers who spend 91 days in various locations around the world, capturing the history,...

A Greek Island Escape

A Greek Island Escape
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Xanthe Fox has it all: a famous, drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend, a dream career and bright future – until heartbreak sends her life into a tailspin. So when Xanthe’s Greek godmother unexpectedly leaves her a villa on the sumptuous island...

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Darjeeling, Kathmandu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A sweeping wartime tale of secrets and love, mystery and redemption, moving from the snow-capped Himalayas to the steamy heat of battle in the Burmese jungle. Perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries, Victoria Hislop and Rosie Thomas. Hampshire, UK,...

The Extinction of Irena Rey

The Extinction of Irena Rey
  • Author(s): Jennifer Croft
  • Location(s): Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on...

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