- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 18th Century
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from everyone. HE IS the Duke of Castamar, one of...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri. Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century
At the turn of the last century, two sisters are following very different paths. Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CEO of an internet start-up; twenty-three-year-old Jess is a grad student in philosophy, a vegan who rejects the rampant capitalism that...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in the capital city of the world’s happiest country, a comedy of manners about depression, the pressures of marriage, and the possibility of falling in love again, from the bestselling author of A House for Happy Mothers. Sanya...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s (Golden Age)
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
- Era(s): Modern looking back to early 20th century
Get swept away along the beautiful Cornish coast, where a love story in a long forgotten diary has the power to change one woman’s life forever. Victoria Langley’s world crumbles when her husband leaves, but she knows exactly where...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A new couple have arrived in Tremarnock, but will these glamorous strangers fit into village life? Tremarnock is a small fishing village, crowded with holidaymakers in the summer, but a sleepy Cornish backwater at other times of the year....
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Ellie Truman’s widowed mum is struggling to keep Gwel Teg, the family hotel in Cornwall, afloat. Ellie is determined to do everything in her power to help her, even if that means moving back to the sleepy Cornish village...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
The Dr Siri Paiboun series by Brit ex-pat Colin Cotterill has been joyously received, both for its humour, and its intriguing historical setting, in newly communist 1970s Laos. The books start when 72-year-old Siri is forced to become the...
The Corpse with the Amber Neck
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 15) It’s April in Paris, and Cait Morgan’s just completed a stint as a visiting professor of criminal psychology at the Sorbonne. Her husband, retired homicide detective Bud Anderson, has joined her, but –...
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