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The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Jaipur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Jaipur Trilogy 2 A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HENNA ARTIST, A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK ‘Captivated me from the first chapter to the last page.’ Reese Witherspoon on The Henna Artist In New York Times bestselling...

The Secret Keepers

The Secret Keepers
  • Author(s): Tilly Bagshawe
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Wengen
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-Second World War

The beautiful bastide at Beaulieu-sur-Mer has always been an idyllic retreat for the Challant family, a place of glorious memories and sun-drenched summers. But the summer of 1928 changes everything. One humid, stormy night, a young local boy suffers...

The Secret Language of Stones

The Secret Language of Stones
  • Author(s): M J Rose
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M.J. Rose...

The Secret Legacy

The Secret Legacy
  • Author(s): Sara Alexander
  • Location(s): Positano
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Some loves are worth sacrificing everything for . . . Santina is spending her final days at her home, Villa San Vito, in the beautiful Italian town of Positano. As she decides the fate of the magnificent eighteenth century...

The Secret Life Of Anna Blanc

The Secret Life Of Anna Blanc
  • Author(s): Jennifer Kincheloe
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

It’s 1907 Los Angeles. Mischievous socialite Anna Blanc is the kind of young woman who devours purloined crime novels but must disguise them behind covers of more domestically-appropriate reading. She could match wits with Sherlock Holmes, but in her...

The Secret Life of France

The Secret Life of France
  • Author(s): Lucy Wadham
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced...

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers
  • Author(s): Marta Molnar, Dana Marton (Translator)
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1800s

When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van...

The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie

The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie
  • Author(s): Malu Halasa, Rana Salam
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Humour, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Syrian lingerie is racy attire little-known in the west. Manufactured in Syria and exported throughout the Middle East, it blinks, sings, vibrates, and flashes lights, and is adorned with everything from faux fir to artificial flowers and feathered birds...

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Arnott
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

You’ve heard of the men who kill, but what about the women who loved them? It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. From the outside, Beverley, Elsie and Margot lead...

The Secret Messenger

The Secret Messenger
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943 /2017

Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...

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