- 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...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860
In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: “Some huge irrational disaster is in the making.” All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Paris; in the stifling August heat, Commandant Serge Morel is called to a disturbing crime scene. An elderly woman has been murdered to the soundtrack of Faure’s Requiem, her body then grotesquely displayed. At first this strange case seems...
- Location(s): Balkans
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
The book is based in the Balkans just after the recent conflicts, the main characters are Natalie and her recently deceased grandfather whose fairytales form a major part of the book.
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building. Within its walls, people talk and kiss, laugh and cry; some are glad to sit alone, while others wish they did not. A woman with silver-blonde hair opens her bookshop...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Tita is a little girl of seven years, and she feels very different to other girls. She has perfect parents. She puts on plays with her friends, spies on adults, challenges her teacher, and even manages to read forbidden...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Modern and Renaissance
Contemporary and historical fiction meet in this love story set in present-day and Renaissance Italy. Broken-hearted art student, Lydia Irvine, spends her days wandering the atmospheric streets of Florence, soaking up the culture in its galleries and museums. She...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1982
Set in the East Germany of 1982, Winter in Berlin tells the story of a mysterious Scottish historian who has come to East Berlin to make a study of the historiographical treatment of Bismarck by East German scholars. But...










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