- Location(s): North Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Kit doesn’t understand why his family has been uprooted to a remote coastal village in the North. Why did they leave so suddenly, and why has his Dad not joined them? At Askfeld Farm Guesthouse he meets an eclectic...
The Beauty of Humanity Movement
- Location(s): Hanoi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
“They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho, and from his handcart- kitchen, Old Man Hu’ng makes the best in all Hanoi. But a striking young Vietnamese-American woman – Maggie Ly –...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago in mysterious circumstances. Her distraught father’s desperate search reveals nothing and results in his departure from the police force. Pieter now lives in a broken down...
- Location(s): Famagusta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
If everyone is lying, who can you trust? The Halfway Inn is closed to customers, side-lined by a bypass and hidden deep in inhospitable countryside. One winter’s night, two women end up knocking on the door, seeking refuge as...
111 Kölner Orte, die man gesehen haben muss
- Location(s): Cologne (Köln)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2008
Dieser Kölnführer ist weit entfernt von allen Köln gleich Dom gleich FC-Klischee-Führern. Witzig, frisch und mit viel Esprit lässt sich dieses Buch wiederholt in die Hand nehmen, um sich ganz neue Köln-Anregungen zu holen oder die Stadt zum ersten...
111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
IN GERMAN ONLY. Kein Mensch kennt alle Geheimnisse dieser gigantischen Stadt. Neue Entdeckungen verraet ein Buch, das ein Trio junger Frauen unter Regie von Journalistin Lucia Jay von Seldeneck geschrieben hat. Es zeigt den Weg zu 111 unbekannten, skurrilen...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
How a crazy queen, a frightened prince and a corrupt court tricked Napoleon and changed the history of Portugal and Brazil. A book set in Brazil. The story of Portuguese King Dom João who fled Portugal as Napoleon was...
- Location(s): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
1822, How a wise man, a sad princess and a money crazy Scotsman helped D. Pedro create Brazil, a country that had everything to go wrong. A book set in Brazil. This is a non-fiction historical book written by...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Novel set in New York.This is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the tacky panoply of power. Into the rarefied atmosphere of a world where money has begun to talk...
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