- Location(s): Kabul, Paris, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one… Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of...
- Location(s): England, London, Snowdonia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a...
- Location(s): Gateshead, Kosovo, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Recent
When you have lost everything, how far would you go?What would you do to protect your child? The war in Kosovo has already been relegated to the history books but in Flying with Kites, Alan Reynolds reminds us of...
- Location(s): Delft
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1660s / 1676
An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist’s desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. 17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer...
- Location(s): Lanzarote
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Haunted by demons past and present, geologist Ann Salter seeks sanctuary on the exotic island of Lanzarote. There she meets charismatic author Richard Parry and indigenous potter Domingo, and together they explore the island. Ann’s encounters with the island’s...
- Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna), Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Faye has just completed her degree in interior design when she finds herself jobless and boyfriend-less. While debating what to do next she receives a surprise phone call from her old college friend Charlotte who now lives in Sardinia...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary/WW2
When a homosexual Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam,...
- Location(s): Lausanne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
For Hadley Dunn, life so far has been uneventful – no great loves, no searing losses. But that’s before she decides to spend a year studying in the glittering Swiss city of Lausanne, a place that feels alive with...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan neighbourhood where multicultural citizens live, love and worship alongside one another. This peace is shattered when Ahmed Taroudant’s melancholy daydreams are...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Enniscorthy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman’s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities...
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