- Location(s): Nettlebed
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
Many stories are told about the five Mansfield sisters. They are haughty, thinking themselves better than their neighbours in the picturesque village of Little Nettlebed. They have taken the death of their grandmother hard. They are liars, troublemakers, untamed...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1989
It’s a searing hot day in the middle of a Namibian summer, and a white man is watering the garden of his luxurious villa while his daughter plays nearby. The peaceful scene is shattered by the single shot that...
- Location(s): Hampshire
- Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Various
When Freya Gibson inherits an old, run-down property she has no idea she is the last in a long line of redoubtable women, including the Tudor nun who built the house. Unknown to Freya, these women, over centuries, fought...
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
- Location(s): Liberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Helene Cooper is “Congo,”...
The House at the Edge of the Night
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
On a tiny island off the coast of Italy, Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, thinks he has found a place where, finally, he can belong. Intrigued by a building the locals believe to be cursed, Amedeo restores the...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
From the bestselling author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, a novel of long-hidden family secrets that refuse to lie buried in the past . . . Scotland 1950s Walter MacMillan is bewitched by the clever, glamorous Jean Thompson...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1852 and 2004
A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A perfect summer. A perfect stranger. A perfect nightmare. When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered the chance to spend the summer housesitting in New York, they can’t say no. Young, in love and on the cusp of...
- Location(s): Brazil, Portugal, Smyrna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
In Rio de Janeiro, a woman suffering from a mysterious illness, which is eroding her body and mind, decides to accept a challenge from her grandfather: to take the key to the house where he grew up – in...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
For years, Stella has kept a secret, but the truth she has concealed for so long is in danger of becoming public knowledge and destroying everyone and everything she cares about. The only person she trusts to help her...
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