The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Historical
- Era(s): Various eras
The fascinating story of how we have gone out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today. Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, where Sitwell is stunned by the...
- Location(s): Essex
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
‘Composed of over sixty per cent water itself, a human body isn’t naturally buoyant. It will float only for as long as there is air in its lungs, before gradually sinking to the bottom as the air seeps out....
The Restoration of Celia Fairchild
- Location(s): Charleston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Evvie Drake Starts Over meets The Friday Night Knitting Club in this wise and witty novel about a fired advice columnist who discovers lost and found family members in Charleston, by the New York Times bestselling author of The...
The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Who wants a respectable retirement anyway? Not Ted Prescott, genial visitor to Mailliot le Bois, here on an impulsive mission to seek out his past whilst heroically diminishing the sleepy French town’s stocks of red wine. But once the...
- Location(s): Berkshire, Surrey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Window shopping! Don’t you just hate the term? It is like going into a sweet shop and not being able to buy anything, or not knowing what to buy first. That is exactly my line of business, helping people...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The sunlight sparkles on the bright turquoise of the pool, next to the freshly painted house with its trailing pink flowers and terracotta roof. I feel a jolt of pride. My partner José and I have dreamed of this...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When worlds collide… Two years ago death drove Aiden Taylor from UK shores and now death has drawn him back. Mourning the loss of his wife, he is returning to bury his father-in-law and support the remaining members of...
- Location(s): Angola, Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre and post 1957
It is the time for both apprehension and hope. The youthful narrator Ravi witnesses the change in a way of life and the end of a way of thinking. The story depicts the experiences of an immigrant community in...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
SEX AND THE CITY MEETS STEPHEN KING’S THE SHINING IN THIS CHILLING DEBUT Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return – except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone. She feels it in her bones...
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