- Location(s): Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s
The New York Times bestselling novel. Rhode Island, 1938. A sweltering summer of secrets, passion and betrayal… Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family have summered for generations. She’s hoping for an escape from the...
- Location(s): Cape Town, Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2006 and present
To escape the pain of failed relationships and careers, both Valda and Larissa take themselves to Dubai seeking not only success, but a reason and purpose in life. Valda does indeed find success and to her astonishment love, but...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A tome of a read, this book chroncles a snapshot of life in India in the 1950’s, the focus on the lives of the Mehra, Kapoor, Chatterji families – a true feast of delectable prose, realtionship insights and characterisation.
- Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed – she finally has the love and affection she craves. But her new ‘soul mother’ is keeping...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A case as cold as the season. A profiler who can’t remember. A killer ready to strike again. Psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren are invited to the small, sleepy industrial town of Ormberg to...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Mexico Border
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist. Yesterday, she was with everyone she loved most in the world. Today, her eight-year-old son Luca is all she has left. For him, she will carry a...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Andrew Caruso has been a second-hand-book dealer in Rome for thirty years when a collection of old photographs changes his life forever. He finds the photos among the possessions of his ex-lover, Michel: the images – possibly from police...
- Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
If you think writing a guidebook is easy, think again! ‘A family’s 8,000 miles round Britain in a Vauxhall Astra’ they were bored, broke, burned out and turning 40, so when Ben and Dinah saw the advert looking for...
- Location(s): China, South East Asia, Tibet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s New Year’s Day and the year isn’t kicking off well for Tansy: her mother’s dead, she’s a cocaine addict and her boyfriend has just left her. A trip around the world seems like the only option except that...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Breathe is a collection that explores the heart of Fidel Castro-era Cuba; an outsider’s look that is balanced by a weight of empathy to illuminate truths that lie couched between the island’s propaganda and the Western media’s portrayal. Characters...










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