- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico’s foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Kate Robinson leaves her Seattle home to travel across Ireland, she is looking to escape: fleeing a broken relationship, a failing career in fashion and the crushing grief over her mother’s death. Her strict itinerary keeps her busy,...
- Location(s): Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, North Wales
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1
Wales, 1915 Angharad Williams lives alone with her secrets and wants to keep it that way. But when her village hosts the formidable yet visionary Canadian, Madge Watt, Angharad is drawn into a movement that promises to change lives-...
The Ladies of the Secret Circus
- Location(s): Paris, Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1924 and 2004
From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. Perfect for fans of...
The Ladies’ Midnight Swimming Club
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Elizabeth’s husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, the only person she can turn to is her friend, Jo. Soon Jo has called in her daughter, Lucy, to help save Elizabeth from bankruptcy. Leaving her old life behind,...
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 20th Century
An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Second half 15th century
Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris’s Musee National...
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Moden
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful — and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse she decides to head south. What...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1850 and 2012
‘I found the photograph album by chance when we were clearing out the old coach house. It must have been sitting on the garage shelf for years among all the other family rejects.’ When a woman finds a lost...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...
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