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The Italian Fiancé

The Italian Fiancé
  • Author(s): Victoria Springfield
  • Location(s): Lucca
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When sisters Cassie and Lisa receive a wedding invitation, the last person they expect to be getting married is Jane, their seventy-year-old aunt! Convinced that she’s making a big mistake, the two put their differences aside to travel to...

The Italian Holiday

The Italian Holiday
  • Author(s): Victoria Springfield
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sun, sea and spaghetti… Italy was Bluebell’s dream destination, but taking her granny’s place on the Loving and Knittingmagazine competition holiday she’d won wasn’t quite what she’d had in mind. For one thing she didn’t knit and for the...

The Italian Lakes Affair

The Italian Lakes Affair
  • Author(s): Rachel Barnett
  • Location(s): Lake Garda
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A glamorous escape. An irresistable attraction. Amy’s life runs like clockwork – as personal assistant to a notoriously sharp-tongued celebrity food critic, she’s used to managing chaos without ever creating any of her own. But everything changes when she’s...

The Italian Party

The Italian Party
  • Author(s): Christina Lynch
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany’s famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each other. When Scottie’s...

The Italian Secret

The Italian Secret
  • Author(s): Tara Moss
  • Location(s): Naples, Pacific Ocean, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground tunnels, a woman takes shelter from a wartime air raid and prays her husband will return home safe. Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a lonely journey to begin...

The Italian Vineyard

The Italian Vineyard
  • Author(s): Anita Chapman
  • Location(s): England, Verona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939 / contemporary

Gazing out over the lush, rolling vineyards of Verona, Kate thinks of the gift that brought her to Italy. The dusty bottle of wine from her great-grandmother’s cellar, which holds the key to a family mystery that will change...

The Ivory Key

The Ivory Key
  • Author(s): Akshaya Raman
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Four siblings. A country in ruin. One quest to save them all. Vira is desperate to get out of her mother’s shadow and establish her legacy as a revered queen of Ashoka. But with the country’s only quarry running...

The J M Barrie Ladies’ Swimming Society

The J M Barrie Ladies’ Swimming Society
  • Author(s): Barbara J Zitwer
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Joey Rubin stumbles upon a group of elderly women swimming in a lake one freezing January morning, she thinks they must be mad. But then they dare her to come in… Joey, an overworked New York architect, has...

The Jacaranda Tree

The Jacaranda Tree
  • Author(s): H E Bates
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

This is a reissue of Bates’s acclaimed novel of Burma. During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice-mill, organises the evacuation and takes with...

The Jackal’s Mistress

The Jackal’s Mistress
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1864

In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a...

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