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The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche

The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Provençal Mystery Series #7 One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valère Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a...

The Secrets of Vesuvius (The Roman Mysteries)

The Secrets of Vesuvius (The Roman Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Caroline Lawrence
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): AD79

It’s the summer of AD 79 and Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus, set sail for the Bay of Naples where they are going to stay with Flavia’s uncle near Pompeii. Once they arrive, they are...

The Secrets of Villa Rosso

The Secrets of Villa Rosso
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Calabria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Post 2014

Some places stay with you forever… When Ellie Maddison is sent on a business trip to Southern Italy, she’s reminded why she loves her job – set amongst rolling vineyards and rich olive groves, the beautiful Villa Rosso is...

The Secrets of Villa Rosso

The Secrets of Villa Rosso
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Southern Italy
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction

When Ellie Maddison is sent on a business trip to Southern Italy, she’s reminded why she loves her job – set amongst rolling vineyards and rich olive groves, the beautiful Villa Rosso is the perfect escape from her life...

The Secrets We Hide

The Secrets We Hide
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Japan, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 - 2012

The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...

The Secrets We Kept

The Secrets We Kept
  • Author(s): Lara Prescott
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it....

The Secrets We Left Behind

The Secrets We Left Behind
  • Author(s): Susan Elliot Wright
  • Location(s): Hastings, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 1976

It was a summer of love, and a summer of secrets… She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But...

The Secrets Women Keep

The Secrets Women Keep
  • Author(s): Fanny Blake
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rose waits for her family to arrive at their villa in Tuscany when a casual glance at her husband’s phone tips her world upside down. The text reads simply: ‘Miss you. Love you. Come back soon.’ Daniel has always...

The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack

The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
  • Author(s): H M Naqvi
  • Location(s): Karachi
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a ‘mythopoetic legacy’ of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan...

The Sellout

The Sellout
  • Author(s): Paul Beatty
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....

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