- 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,...
- Location(s): Iraq
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Girl in Green takes us deep into modern Iraq, where British journalist Thomas Benton and relief worker Marta Strom are persuaded by ex-US soldier Arwood Hobbes to embark on what may be a fools’ errand in a last-chance effort...
- Location(s): Oberlin, Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
When modest Quaker Honor Bright sails from Bristol with her sister, she is fleeing heartache for a new life in America, far from home. But tragedy leaves her alone and vulnerable, torn between two worlds and dependent on the...
- Location(s): Deya (Deià)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One hot summer. One week in a villa on the outskirts of Deia, a village nestling in the rugged, mountainous west coast of the island of Mallorca. One family for whom the carefully laid jigsaw of life is about...
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