The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cracked doesn’t always mean broken. Grieving her mother’s death, Mari Lennox travels to Kyoto, Japan to take photographs of Yanagi Inn for a client. As she explores the inn and its grounds, her camera captures striking images, uncovering layers...
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt’s cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement – both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Let the wind take me and the soft rain settle me into the Irish soil from where I came. And may my sins be forgiven.’ Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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