- Location(s): New South Wales, Bethnal Green, Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s to 2000s
A monastery is dying.Brother Columba and his frail Abbot face the task of having to leave the rural sanctuary that has been home to an order of monks since its foundation to live in a care home in inner-city...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What’s left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom’s wife had an affair, he resolved to leave her once their children had grown up. Twelve years later, after driving his daughter to university, he remembers his...
- Location(s): Ghana, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern / 1990s
On the cusp of thirty, Ghanaian Londoner Whitney Appiah was born with a special gift. The massage therapist can physically sense where her clients’ trauma lies and heal them. But Whitney has no idea that she too is suffering....
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Emily’s heart is broken by the love of her life, she never imagined that she would find herself running a small restaurant in the converted hat shop her grandmother left to her. The Food of Love offers diners...
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and follows on from The Kamogawa Food Detectives. Tucked...
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...
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