- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
THE NO.1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana’s only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and...
- Location(s): Antibes, Cuba (Republic of), World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s-1960s
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
- Genre(s): Historical, Novella
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa has to leave her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hard labour, she finds love with Jaume – a love that will be...
- Location(s): Biarritz
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
Wilma Johnson was living on the west coast of Ireland with her family, balancing the challenges of being an artist, wife and mother, until, in her forties, she was gripped by a deep desire to seize the day, and...
- Location(s): Chartres
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There is something special about the ancient cathedral in Chartres, with its mismatched spires, astonishing stained-glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something special too about Agnès Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning it each...
The Curious Charms Of Arthur Pepper
- Location(s): England, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Having been married for over 40 years, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper is mourning the loss of his wife. On the anniversary of her death, he finally musters the courage to go through her possessions, and happens upon a charm bracelet...
- Location(s): Luxembourg
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
For 15 years, Kate Moore has led a secret life, living in Washington D.C. with her husband, Dexter,who is in computers, and her two young children. She works for the CIA but her family has no idea. She does...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon....
- Location(s): Mexico, Nagasaki, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An exuberant debut that sweeps across the twentieth century—beginning where one world-famous love story left off to introduce us to another With Sophie Tucker belting from his hand-crank phonograph and a circle of boarding-school admirers laughing uproariously around him,...
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