- 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...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Destination Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The sunlight sparkles on the bright turquoise of the pool, next to the freshly painted house with its trailing pink flowers and terracotta roof. I feel a jolt of pride. My partner José and I have dreamed of this...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When worlds collide… Two years ago death drove Aiden Taylor from UK shores and now death has drawn him back. Mourning the loss of his wife, he is returning to bury his father-in-law and support the remaining members of...
- Location(s): Angola, Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal...
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