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Summer in Your Eyes

Summer in Your Eyes
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): current

Sometimes life’s greatest adventures are found closest to home . . . Travel writer Holly Merriweather knows a fresh start is just what she needs to get her life back on track. Breaking up with her childhood sweetheart and...

Summer Island

Summer Island
  • Author(s): Kristin Hannah
  • Location(s): San Juan Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne...

Summer Island

Summer Island
  • Author(s): Natalie Normann
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2017

Summer Island off the coast of Norway was the place London chef Jack Greene should have been from. He’s an outsider in the community that should have been his family, and now he’s setting foot on the strange land...

Summer Longing

Summer Longing
  • Author(s): Jamie Brenner
  • Location(s): Cape Cod, Provincetown
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life’s disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a...

Summer Loving

Summer Loving
  • Author(s): Nicola Yeager
  • Location(s): The Algarve
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Saskia Lucas is on yet another luxury holiday in an exotic location. This time it’s The Algarve, in the south of Portugal. She’s with Franklin, an older man who in past times might have been called her Sugar Daddy....

Summer Nights at Hillview Farm

Summer Nights at Hillview Farm
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Some rules were made to be broken… especially when it comes to love. After a tragedy left her heart shattered, deputy headteacher Adele Robson has rebuilt her life in Glenbriar, keeping her grief hidden behind a polished, no-nonsense exterior....

Summer of ’69

Summer of ’69
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969

Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century . . . Every year the Levin children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother’s historic island home, but this year it’s not to be. Blair,...

Summer of My German Soldier

Summer of My German Soldier
  • Author(s): Bette Greene
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): WW2

When the train pulls into the station in Jenkensville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen senses something exciting is going to happen. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp. To the rest of the...

Summer of Reckoning

Summer of Reckoning
  • Author(s): Marion Brunet
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of the prestigious French mystery prize 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature policière. A psychological thriller set in the Luberon, a touristic French region that evokes holidays in magnificent pool-adorned villas. For those who live there year-round, it often...

Summer on a Sunny Island

Summer on a Sunny Island
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Malta
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This summer, sparks are flying on the island of Malta… When Rosa Hammond splits up from her partner Marcus, her Mum Dory suggests a summer in Malta. Not one to sit back and watch her daughter be unhappy, Dory...

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