Calcutta 1841. Emanuel an ambitious Jewish merchant wants to make his fortune by trading opium with China. Over the ensuing decades Emanuel s success will be determined by two remarkable women Semah his dutiful first wife in Calcutta whose...

As they hurtle into midlife, Jim and his closest college friends get together to rekindle the bonds of their friendship in his family’s beautiful, generations-old vacation home along Buzzards Bay. But what begins as a restorative seaside escape takes...

Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house...

A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families – one rich, one not – vacation together off the coast of South Carolina, little do they know that someone won’t be returning home. Fripp Island, South Carolina,...

Two centuries, two children, one house Beth didn’t want to move to Dublin – she misses her old life and her friends back in London. New home and new school is hard enough, but to make matters worse someone...

‘We’re going to a fine place,’ Idie told Homer to console him, ‘with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.’ Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey...

Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about...

A young girl grows up in a family uprooted by the terror of an Islamic Revolution, where her culture, her gender, and her education are in peril. For the curious and imaginative Moji, there is no better place to...

No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . . Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men. She fell under...

Layla is calm, in control and is definitely not about to lose her serenity for the man next door! Surely it can’t be hard to stay peaceful at one of the oldest yoga and mindfulness retreats in the Algarve,...