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The Secrets of Villa Rosso

The Secrets of Villa Rosso
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Southern Italy
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction

When Ellie Maddison is sent on a business trip to Southern Italy, she’s reminded why she loves her job – set amongst rolling vineyards and rich olive groves, the beautiful Villa Rosso is the perfect escape from her life...

The Secrets We Hide

The Secrets We Hide
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Japan, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 - 2012

The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...

The Secrets We Kept

The Secrets We Kept
  • Author(s): Lara Prescott
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it....

The Secrets We Left Behind

The Secrets We Left Behind
  • Author(s): Susan Elliot Wright
  • Location(s): Hastings, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 1976

It was a summer of love, and a summer of secrets… She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But...

The Secrets Women Keep

The Secrets Women Keep
  • Author(s): Fanny Blake
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rose waits for her family to arrive at their villa in Tuscany when a casual glance at her husband’s phone tips her world upside down. The text reads simply: ‘Miss you. Love you. Come back soon.’ Daniel has always...

The Seeker of Lost Paintings

The Seeker of Lost Paintings
  • Author(s): Sarah Freethy
  • Location(s): London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939 / 1997

Rome 1939 Arriving in Rome to work for the wealthy Montefalco family, Maddalena is homesick and alone. She finds solace – and love – in the beauty of the city, but as the war in Nazi-occupied Italy rages, she...

The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack

The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
  • Author(s): H M Naqvi
  • Location(s): Karachi
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a ‘mythopoetic legacy’ of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan...

The Self-Made Saint

The Self-Made Saint
  • Author(s): Alexandra Addams
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Judith Drainger has always played life by her own rules. But these days life seems to be playing her right back. Divorced, orphaned and forcibly retired, 59-year-old Judith is determined to seize the opportunity to leave her broken home...

The Sellout

The Sellout
  • Author(s): Paul Beatty
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....

The Senator’s Wife

The Senator’s Wife
  • Author(s): Liv Constantine
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, DC philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they’re...

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