- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1910
The German Messenger A novel by David Malcolm Late 1916. Europe is tearing itself apart in the Great War. Harry Draffen, part Greek, part Scottish, British secret agent, cosmopolitan, polyglot, man of violence, is having a bad war. Now...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Could we claim that The German Room invents a new genre? It would be an exaggeration, of course, but we can certainly say that this novel represents what we could call a non-coming of age tale. A female protagonist...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Careful what you wish for… Three women routinely take the same coastal train service to the city. All they have in common is that each is desperate for an escape. Newly-wed Dara would give anything to go back in...
- Location(s): Hvar, Croatia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes it takes losing everything to find the person you need . . . Most people travel to Croatia for its endless sunshine, pebbly beaches and crystal clear sea. Kate goes there to disappear. She needs to escape from...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Keeper Island, the private Caribbean paradise where the cocktails are chilled, the guests are not, and new manager Lola is hoping nothing messes up her badly needed fresh start. Her previous job in Hong Kong ended in...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Will escaping for two weeks save her marriage? Or change her life? To the outside world, bestselling author Linda Costa has it all: a successful career, a wonderful marriage and two gorgeous children. But appearances can be deceiving …...
- Location(s): Croatia, London
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Would you swap houses – and lives – with a stranger? Maddie and her long-term boyfriend, Tom, dream of a life living and working abroad, though right now they’re settling for a lovely vacation in the sunny European beach...
- Location(s): Italy, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
One morning, Connie McColl wakes up and decides to swap her ordinary life, for an extraordinary adventure… Connie McColl is finally free to make her own decisions for the first time in decades. And when she meets glamorous Gilland...
- Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now… The narrator of Robert Harris’s gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter – cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan...
- Location(s): London, Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to...
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