- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 1960s
In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port...
- Location(s): East Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Kurt Krausmann, a recently bereaved Frankfurt doctor, is persuaded to join his friend, wealthy benefactor Hans Makkenroth, on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. The journey helps him begin to confront his loss, but soon misfortune strikes again: the...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do...
- Location(s): Tunisia
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
It looked like an ordinary group of tourists – a mix of easy-going and critical, quiet and talkative, enthusiastic and bored. But antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is leading this tour through the souks, mosques and ruins of Tunisia so...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
The incredible story of the slave who became a Japanese samurai. In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Andrea Camilleri’s sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigàta harbour – and into a puzzling new mystery....
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a strange planetary spectacle, creating an ever-changing map which even...
- Location(s): Europe, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s- 1940s
‘I’d rather take a picture than be one,’ Lee Miller declares, as she arrives in Paris one cool day in 1929. Lee has left behind her life in New York and a successful modelling career at Vogue to pursue...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war, while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens he witnesses the poisoning...
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1946
It is 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a hated colleague is found dead, and...
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