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The Historian

The Historian
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Kostova
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Science Fiction/Future

Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to ‘My dear and unfortunate successor’. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of...

The Ice Twins

The Ice Twins
  • Author(s): S K Tremayne
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

(copied from Amazon.co.uk) One of Sarah’s daughters died. But can she be sure which one? A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies...

The Illegal Gardener #1

The Illegal Gardener #1
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a dilapidated farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. The house is livable by local standards, but the...

The Italian Girl

The Italian Girl
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring...

The Kama Sutra Diaries

The Kama Sutra Diaries
  • Author(s): Sally Howard
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills...

The Kashmir Shawl

The Kashmir Shawl
  • Author(s): Rosie Thomas
  • Location(s): Ladakh, Srinagar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

An epic story of wartime, family secrets and forbidden love, set against the stunning exotic backdrop of 1940s Kashmir. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime… Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time...

The Love Detective

The Love Detective
  • Author(s): Alexandra Potter
  • Location(s): Goa, India
  • Era(s): Modern

‘In a way, I’m a bit of a love detective. Because what’s a greater mystery than love?’ Meet Ruby Miller. A writer who makes happy-ever-afters happen. Until she discovers her fiance is a lying cheat and loses her faith...

The Marco Chronicles

The Marco Chronicles
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Geoghegan
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Get ready to have all your illusions of the glamorous Italian expat life shattered in this hilarious, irreverent memoir of a young American woman’s romantic (or rather, unromantic) misadventures in the eternal city. Handsome, charming Roman men; perfectly made...

The Medici Mirror

The Medici Mirror
  • Author(s): Melissa Bailey
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern and 16th Century

A hidden room When architect Johnny Carter is asked to redesign a long-abandoned Victorian shoe factory, he discovers a hidden room deep in the basement. A dark, sinister room, which contains a sixteenth-century Venetian mirror. A love in danger...

The Night Falling

The Night Falling
  • Author(s): Katherine Webb
  • Location(s): Puglia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s onward

Puglia, 1921. Leandro Cardetta, born into poverty, emigrated to America to make his fortune and has returned home to southern Italy a rich man, accompanied by his glamorous wife, Marcie, an ex-showgirl fighting middle age. Now Leandro has money...

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