- Location(s): County Mayo, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady’s maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught...
Just This Once (Escape to New Zealand #1)
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Everyone needs to be rescued sometimes. Everyone but Hannah Montgomery, that is. She just needs a vacation. Three weeks in New Zealand to sort out her life, figure out what she wants, seems just right. Oh, and to relax....
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1599
Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman’s body half-buried in the snow. The dead woman is none other than the emperor’s mistress, and there’s...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 17th Century
In 1626, Bada Shanren is born into the Chinese royal family. When the old Ming Dynasty crumbles, he becomes an artist, committed to capturing the essence of nature with a single brushstroke. Then the rulers of the new Qing...
- Location(s): Isle of Harris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s, Modern
Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson, naïve and newly-ordained, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris. His time on the island will irrevocably change the course of his life, but the white...
- Location(s): Brussels, Tervuren
- Genre(s): Young Adult
Seventeen-year-old Veerle is bored with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members illegally break into unoccupied buildings around the city, soon opens up a whole new world of excitement – and danger....
The Cartographer of No Man’s Land
- Location(s): France, Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
‘Trust me. I know where I’m going.’ Angus MacGrath, artist, sailor and navigator, is lost, caught between a remote wife, a disapproving father and a son seeking guidance. Far from his coastal village in Nova Scotia, war rages in...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 1900s and 1980s
At the famous Patisserie Clermont in Paris, 1909, a chance encounter with the owner’s daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a ‘secret annexe’, fearing discovery. All that time,...
- Location(s): England, France, Italy
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1670s
FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco’s mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle,...
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