- Location(s): Haugesund, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Occupied Norway, 1944. While the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn’t heard from in three years. Her daughter...
- Location(s): England, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s and Modern
When Emily Gordon, editor at a London publishing house, commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a tricky path between Morton’s formidable widow, Jacqueline, who’s determined to protect his secrets, and the biographer,...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Even the darkest journey must come to an end… ‘Haunting, intoxicating’ Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me ‘Deeply affecting’ Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls Three years ago, Lelle’s daughter went missing in a remote...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
Never has Inspector Montalbano’s character – a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food – been more compelling than in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator...
- Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to...
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
In her thirties, Jennifer Klinec abandons a corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London flat. Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents, she has already travelled to countries most people are fearful of, in search of ancient...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1500s
1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He...
- Location(s): Oslo, Telemark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020
When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with eighteen-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life. Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts...
- Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A tale of siblings, territory and revenge set in the South of France,the British and the French, a dark tale with tragic events. It is also about relationships
Trouble in Nuala. The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #1
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
TFBookClub choice for November/December 2017. More details here When Inspector Shanti de Silva moves with his English wife, Jane, to a new post in the sleepy hill town of Nuala, he anticipates a more restful life than police work...










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