- Location(s): Jamaica, Kilburn, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1873
Kilburn, 1873. The ‘Tichborne Trial’ has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be – or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1863/1864 onwards
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1978
Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Revolutionary
Why fight to free a country that would never free him? Calabar was brought from Africa to North-Carolina as a boy and sold on the docks as chattel property to a plantation owner. On the plantation, he learned the...
- Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Packed full of French flavour and idyllic settings this is a romantic, heart-warming and unputdownable new novel about life and love, perfect for anyone who loves Milly Johnson, Lucy Diamond and Debbie Johnson. Suddenly unemployed and single, Anna escapes...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Zoe Pascal has decided to live her dream: leave England and open up a bookshop in a small village in the south of France. She wants to spend her later years in life eating croissants, reading her beloved books,...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Current
The recipe for a perfect holiday… Step 1: Mix together a group of mature students Step 2: Add in a handsome host Step 3: Season with a celebrity chef Step 4: Bring to the boil at a luxurious cookery...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes the only way to rebuild is to face the past you tried to escape… On the night Fliss loses everything – her beloved hotel ravaged by fire and fiancé exposed as a cheat – she receives devastating news:...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes, Paris is a terrible idea. This is not how she imagined it, any of it. Taylor Quinn arrives at her honeymoon suite in the City of Love alone, sans suitcase, but with wads of stolen cash. When she...
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): WW2
In Nazi-occupied Guernsey, the wrong decision can destroy a life… Left profoundly deaf after an accident, Émile is no stranger to isolation – or heartbreak. Now, as Nazi planes loom over Guernsey, he senses life is about to change...
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