- 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...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s
1951. Brighton. With the excitement of the war over and the Nazis brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (retired Secret Service) thinks her skills are no longer required. After the death of her lover she moves to the...
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