- 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,...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s - 1990s
Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in Provence, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a sweltering...
- Location(s): Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
From Hanoi to Saigon, a tale of one woman’s search for a better life – and a thriller that strikes to the merciless heart of post-civil war Vietnam. In the chaos and corruption of 1980s’ Vietnam, three seemingly unconnected...
- Location(s): Rome, Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2004 and 1978
“Can she trust them? Can you?” A psychological thriller about love and betrayal, and the damage done when ideals and human lives come into conflict. Helen is in a hotel room with her lover when a gunman murders her...










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