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Summer Hours

Summer Hours
  • Author(s): Alessandra Thom
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin’s life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve. When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a...

Summer House

Summer House
  • Author(s): Georgina Moore
  • Location(s): Rye, The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The night of their christening, twins Teddy and Elliott are abandoned by their mother Mira, who runs away with ‘the man in the white suit’ for a life on the other side of the ocean. Then, in the summer...

Summer in Greece

Summer in Greece
  • Author(s): Patricia Wilson
  • Location(s): Kea (Tzia), Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary/WW1

Could these crystal clear waters hide the secrets of her past? Present day For years Shelly Summer has buried herself in her work, trying to forget her past. The only time she feels truly herself is when she’s diving...

Summer in Provence

Summer in Provence
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When married couple Fern and Aiden have a windfall, their reactions could not be more different. While Fern is content to pay off their mortgage and build a nest egg before starting a family, her husband is set on...

Summer in San Remo

Summer in San Remo
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Bath, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anything could happen when you spend summer in San Remo … Running her busy concierge service usually keeps Cassie Travers fully occupied. But when a new client offers her the strangest commission she’s ever handled she suddenly finds herself...

Summer in San Remo

Summer in San Remo
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): San Remo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Running her busy concierge service usually keeps Cassie Travers fully occupied. But when a new client offers her the strangest commission she’s ever handled she suddenly finds herself on the cusp of an Italian adventure, with a man she...

Summer in San Sebastian

Summer in San Sebastian
  • Author(s): Joy Skye
  • Location(s): San Sebastian
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abigail’s world has disintegrated, leaving her jobless, homeless, and loveless in a remarkably brief space of time. Where else can she lick her wounds but in Spain with her dippy Aunt May. She pulls on her big girl pants,...

Summer in the City

Summer in the City
  • Author(s): Alex Aster
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter, Elle, has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due by the end of the summer....

Summer in the Islands: An Italian Odyssey

Summer in the Islands: An Italian Odyssey
  • Author(s): Matthew Fort
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine spending a carefree summer in the Italian sun, beachcombing, eating and drinking with abandon, drifting without restraint from island to island, from port to port. Summer in the Islands is the record of Matthew Fort doing just that...

Summer in Tintagel

Summer in Tintagel
  • Author(s): Amanda James
  • Location(s): Tintagel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

We all have secrets…… Ambitious journalist Rosa Fernley has been asked to fulfil her grandmother Jocelyn’s dying wish. Jocelyn has also passed on a secret – in the summer of 1968, fleeing from the terror of a bullying husband,...

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