- Location(s): Orkney Islands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships. It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling. From the moment Alison...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Emma’s the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as ‘the hairdresser’ – because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren’t convinced. Nor...
- Location(s): Paris, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of...
- Location(s): Corfu, Zagoria
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1980s and 1990s
Roy & Effie Hounsell escaped from England to Corfu in 1980, before deciding in 1991 to buy and renovate a traditional stone house in Koukouli, one of the 46 villages in remote, mountainous Zagoria, on the north west Greek...
- Location(s): Bora Bora, Manihi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Amber Pepper’s jeweller boyfriend Hugh asks her to join him on a business trip to the paradise islands of Tahiti she’s not keen – Amber loves big jumpers and rain. She’d rather be pedalling through puddles at home...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1896 and contemporary
Nancy Roach has fled her dissertation advisor for Paris, where her PhD research is proving fruitless. When her curiosity is piqued by an illustration of “The Parasol Flower” in a 19th century treatise, she is drawn into the life...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The last word anyone would use to describe Stella St. Vincent is adventurous. She’s perfectly comfortable with the familiar, strict routines of her life as a copyeditor in New York. Or at least, she is until she receives a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s - 2017
Guy Ware’s new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class Communist family, growing up in the radical...
- Location(s): Croatia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980's-1990's
Yugoslavia, summer 1979. A new village. A new life. But eight-year-old Miro knows the real reason why his family moved from the inland city of Knin to the sunkissed village of Ljeta on the Dalmatian Coast, a tragedy he...
Please wait...
