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Tune In Tokyo

Tune In Tokyo
  • Author(s): Tim Anderson
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan, “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker...

Two Brothers

Two Brothers
  • Author(s): Ben Elton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s to 1945, 1950s onwards

It is 1920 and two baby boys are born, and are brought up as brothers in Berlin. Paulus and Otto are the twin sons of devoted and happy Jewish parents Frieda and Wolfgang Stengel. But one of the children...

Vanishing Tales from Ancient Trails

Vanishing Tales from Ancient Trails
  • Author(s): James Dorsey
  • Location(s): Greece, South East Asia, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Adventure traveler James Dorsey takes readers around the world to not only explore ancient trails, but to help immerse readers in the old traditions of lands that seem to be disappearing in the modern world. This book of short...

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match
  • Author(s): Wendy Moore
  • Location(s): County Durham, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1750s-1800

Moore transposes the historical Mary Eleonor Bowes (distant relationship of the Queen Mother) into a living, breathing woman, suffering Domestic Abuse at the hands of her new husband. It follows in detail her trials and tribulations through her marriage,...

Where Sea meets Sky

Where Sea meets Sky
  • Author(s): Karina Halle
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modenr

Joshua Miles has spent his early twenties spinning his wheels. Working dead-end jobs and living at home has left him exhausted and uninspired, with little energy to pursue his passion for graphic art. Until he meets Gemma Henare, a...

Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing
  • Author(s): Delia Owens
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For years, rumours of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh...

Wild Dog

Wild Dog
  • Author(s): Serge Joncour
  • Location(s): Lot-et-Garonne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914/15 and 2017

Franck and Lise, a French couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot to get away from the stresses of modern life. In this remote corner of the world, there is...

Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here
  • Author(s): Victoria Connelly
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sun, sea and secrets… A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just what Alice Archer needs, even if she has to put up with her difficult sister. Stella’s tantrums and diva-like demands are a fair price...

Wish you were here

Wish you were here
  • Author(s): Catherine Alliott
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines...

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Author(s): Therese Anne Fowler
  • Location(s): France, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th century

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn’t...

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