- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man – Ashton Pelham-Martyn – brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the Angel family’s beloved home in the Antioquian wilderness falls into danger, they manage to defend it against the guerrillas and, later, the paramilitaries – but at a high price. After their parents’ death, Pilar, Eva and Tono...
- Location(s): The Hudson Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks – a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness...
The Farm at the Edge of the World
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day and 1943-4
A timeslip story about love, loss and forgiveness. Three generations of women; a secret to atone for; all played out on a stretch of north Cornish coast. 1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Helen Woodley, editor of Australia’s top magazine, had no idea how successful her new column would be. Who knew that if the country’s lovelorn farmers were profiled each week, readers would queue up to date them? Get ready to...
- Location(s): Connemara
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
A man and his son are found dead in the small hours in front of their remote farmhouse. They have been stabbed. DI Martin O’Shea and DS Deirdre Maguire attend, but the motive for the killings elude them. Why...
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Narrated by a young soldier caught in the deadly fog of war, Eck’s first novel is a harrowing exploration of contemporary warfare. “What brought you here?” is the question asked of Eck’s young narrator, Joshua Stantz, from the army’s...
- Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, London
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): !9th Century
Victorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions… Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn’t grown a single inch since...
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet....
- Location(s): Bolivia
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 20th/21st Century
The twenty stories collected in this volume offer not only a comprehensive look at the variety and invention of Bolivian literature, but also provide more information about the heart and soul of Bolivia than a warehouse full of news...
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