A Better Quality of Murder (Lizzie Martin 3)
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Evil lurks on the streets of Victorian London in this gripping crime novel. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Practice nurse Kate Palmer is ready for some peace and quiet in her little Cornish village, but there’s soon to be a murder on her doorstep… Kate’s retirement in Cornwall hasn’t quite gone as planned – Lavender Cottage is...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Set high above Ravello on the Amalfi Coast is the Villa Cimbrone, and is the unifying anchor for a cast of characters who in fact never meet. Empathic prose captures their lives, the author focusses on some of the...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1920s
New York in the Roaring Twenties – a time for love, secrets and scandal… As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue – a beautiful socialite of a...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Provence is a land of long cafe lunches, of lavender, olives, wine, medieval villages and ruined castles. Its history is steeped with myth and legend and peopled with painters, poets and knights. The beauty of its land has been...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Olivia’s beloved Aunt Grace passes, she leaves everything to her niece, with one condition: Travel to Prague and deliver a message to Grace’s long-lost true love, Marek. The trouble is, Olivia’s world is getting smaller. Since her husband...
- Location(s): Louisiana, New Orleans
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole’s masterful comic novel takes its title, as well asfrom Jonathan Swift A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern – this...
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- Location(s): Chechnya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
The story of eight people (and a nation) navigating two brutal wars, it’s a novel of loyalty and sacrifice and enduring love.
- Location(s): Cornwall, Helford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Running out on your wedding day never goes down well. When the pressure of her forthcoming marriage becomes too much, Jude bolts from the church, leaving a good man at the altar, her mother in a fury, and the...
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