- Location(s): Riyadh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970
The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he’s enrolled at university to study politics and economics. But this city has more than...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): early 21st century
Dating is hard enough. Throw in an incontinent Chihuahua, an unrequited love affair, a severe case of social anxiety disorder, a dying father, and a man-eating hog and it becomes darned near impossible. Still, it takes two to tango—and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern/16th Century
A glamorous Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy soon after losing custody of her young daughter, she hopes to forget her woes by serving as a judge...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960
1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth – a young painter – the GDR is her generation’s chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
- Era(s): 1980s
Kit said she was fine. She lied. She said she didn’t care. She cared deeply. Kit’s story is one of control, deception, infertility and guilt, but most of all it’s one of a young woman who longs to be...
Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Miscellaneous
- Era(s): Various
Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals to the Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Sicily’s violently beautiful...
- Location(s): Santa Ynez
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns...
Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Author Tillie Bagshawe brilliantly recaptured the late superstar author’s magic with Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game—and now she does it again with Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness. A classic tale of love and betrayal, and a struggle for...
- Location(s): Siena
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Welsh artist Sara Llewellyn’s husband and young son are killed by chance during the shooting of a wealthy Italian in London. The killer disappears and Sara’s pain and grief drive her to the edge of madness. She hides away...
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