- Location(s): Naples, Exeter
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary / Renaissance
When a song by the mad composer, Carlo Gesualdo, is discovered in Exeter Museum, trouble descends on the group asked to sing it. Lisa is full of enthusiasm at first, but she soon becomes convinced the song is cursed....
Secret Passages in a Hillside Town
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An atmospheric love story with a twist by the author of The Rabbit Back Literature Society In a small hillside town, Olli Suominen – publisher and discontented husband – is constantly losing umbrellas. He has also joined a film...
- Location(s): Liverpool, The Wirral
- Genre(s): Crime, Horror
- Era(s): Modern
Civil servant Dudley Smith writes a short story based on a true murder which took place on an underground train. He then went on to enter in a competition in “The Mersey Mouth” which he duly won. Once his...
- Location(s): Somalia, Mogadishu (Mogadiscio)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In Secrets, Somalian author Nuruddin Farah has conjured a densely woven tale of betrayal, hidden agendas, and tangled relationships that is both a deeply personal story in and of itself and emblematic of the greater problems that continue to...
- Location(s): Connecticut
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can love grow in the most unexpected of places … Lucy would have done anything for her mom … but she never expected to promise to leave her. After her mom got sick, Lucy dropped everything to take care...
- Location(s): Kruger National Park
- Genre(s): Adventure, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are those of the heart Journalist Kate Harper arrives in Africa to write about poaching just as an orphaned rhino calf is being airlifted to safety. Reeling from the loss of both her parents in...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everyone has something to hide. Back then, I was a young woman, without the imagination to know how it would all end, and how the terrible consequences of the choices I made would echo down the years… 75-year-old Ronnie...
- Location(s): France, Ireland, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ailie, Sybil and Rua can take care of themselves. But when they form an unexpected friendship, they discover new perspectives on old problems. Ailie is recently widowed, and struggling. At least she can cut ties with her toxic Italian...
- Location(s): Mozambique
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘It was the most dangerous thing she could have done. But Sofia was only playing – pushing and shoving and laughing with her sister as they ran out to the fields one pearly dawn. Sofia didn’t mean to step...
- Location(s): Positano
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
In this celebration of Italian life and culture, seventeen-year-old Alessandra returns for the summer to Italy, where she grew up. Pressured by her parents into babysitting a rebellious twelve year old—ruining holiday plans with newfound American friends—Alessandra resigns herself...
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