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The House on Hawthorn Road

The House on Hawthorn Road
  • Author(s): Megan Wynne
  • Location(s): Dublin, London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1950, Present Day

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...

The House on Hummingbird Island

The House on Hummingbird Island
  • Author(s): Sam Angus
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

‘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...

The House on Moon Lake

The House on Moon Lake
  • Author(s): Francesca Duranti
  • Location(s): Vienna, Milan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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...

The House on Sun Street

The House on Sun Street
  • Author(s): Mojgan Ghazirad
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

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...

The House on the Edge of the Cliff

The House on the Edge of the Cliff
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present

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...

The House on the Hill: A Summer in the Algarve

The House on the Hill: A Summer in the Algarve
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Lagos (Portugal), Portugal
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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,...

The House Saphir

The House Saphir
  • Author(s): Marissa Meyer
  • Location(s): Washington State
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Mallory Fontaine is a fraud. Though she comes from a long line of witches, the only magic she possesses is the ability to see ghosts, which is rarely as useful as one would think. She and her sister have...

The House Swap

The House Swap
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Two perfect families. Two beautiful homes. A one-way trip to hell. When two families organise a house swap, it seems like the perfect holiday arrangement. The Browns will exchange their London townhouse for a stunning chateau in the south...

The House That Alice Built

The House That Alice Built
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Portugal, Cascais
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Home is where the heart is … Alice Dorothy Matthews is sensible. Whilst her best friend Kathy is living it up in Portugal and her insufferable ex Adam is travelling the world, Alice is working hard to pay for...

The House That Florence Left

The House That Florence Left
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Lagos (Portugal)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Could an unlikely inheritance be the secret to Bella’s happiness? Bella Cresswell likes her life organized. But when she inherits her great-aunt Flo’s house in the Algarve, her life gets decidedly disorganized. She flies to Portugal hoping for a...

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