The Last Resort: a Memoir of Zimbabwe
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Jaime Valdés, high society lothario, has seemingly choked to death in the presence of both his mistress and his wife, but all of Spain is atwitter with the possibility of murder. Coincidentally, when he arrives at the spa, Molinet...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Galway, London, Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945, 1976, 1999
War would bring them together. But would it ultimately tear them apart? Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy are five young women looking for adventure, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle attached to the Fourteenth Army....
The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species
- Location(s): South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lawrence Anthony’s South African game reserve is home to many animals he has saved, from a remarkable herd of elephants to a badly behaved bushbaby called George. Described as ‘the Indiana Jones of conservation’, when one of his rhinos...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music… 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is...
- Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back to early 20th Century
This is the USA title. The same as The Porcelain Doll. A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union,...
- Location(s): Tàrbena
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Yorkshire museum designer. An American café owner from New York City. A tiny mountain village in Spain. When John Sunderland and his wife, Kathy, left New York City to begin a new chapter of their lives in Tàrbena,...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modernn
Early spring has its icy grip on (fictional) Ödesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Björnlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Between chronic health issues and an overprotective mother, twenty-two-year-old Oriah Pera feels like she’s stuck waiting for her life to begin. But when her mother’s job takes them to Majora, Ry’s ready to break free and make this summer...
- Location(s): Crediton
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Medieval
Paris, 1307: A Knight Templar weeps as he watches his friends, broken by torture, go to their deaths at the stake. Pope Clement has destroyed the Order, persuaded of corruption within it. All that remains is the desire for...
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