The Love Goddess’ Cooking School
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Holly Maguire inherits “Camilla’s Cucinotta,” her late grandmother’s home-based Italian cooking school in Blue Crab Island, Maine, twelve of the sixteen students for the upcoming fall class drop out. After all, Holly isn’t a seventy-five-year-old Milanese love goddess,...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dream job, two handsome men, one destructive act. Will Freya’s opportunity of a lifetime end in tears? When Freya leaves her publishing job in London to be a barefoot bookseller in the Maldives, it’s the push she needs...
- Location(s): British Virgin Islands, Corsham, England, Salisbury, Somerset
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Forbidden love has never looked so tempting… After making a ground-breaking discovery, archaeologist Sophia Hunter-Savage has her work stolen and her heart broken. She needs a safe place to lick her wounds, so retreats to her family home in...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical
Margot Baumann has left school to work in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Margot is shielded from the camp’s brutality, as she has...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): early 21st century
Natalie Cleary must risk her future and leap blindly into a vast unknown for the chance to build a new world with the boy she loves. Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical...
- Location(s): Geneva, Lake Geneva
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
- Era(s): 1816
Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1940s
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel’s story, set...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre WW2
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
- Era(s): contemporary
Is it worse to deceive to your husband or the police? Rikke is lying to them both. But how many lies can she get away with? When her upstairs neighbour Jørgen is found murdered, she’s questioned alongside her husband....
- Location(s): Algiers
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to 1990s
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