- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
After escaping form Muswell Hill in London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine plans to spend her days doing as little as possible in her beautiful home in Devon. But soon after the move, her daughter Ellen...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
With photos this book provides complete and accurate descriptions of varioius topics from the ancient traditions to the modern popular culture, and plenty of tips for travelers
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), London, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Joanne Harris and William Boyd. Beatrice Palmentier is 36, an award-winning director. And discontent. She is about to make a documentary on world-famous restaurateur Joseph Troumeg, when the discovery of a skull on the...
- Location(s): Coney Island
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Post WW2
This is the story of The Greatest Funambulist Who Ever Lived… Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. Until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson...
- Location(s): Beirut, Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
A novel is a coming of age book, set in a village outside Beirut and follows the escalating conflict in Lebanon through the eyes of the young girl, Ruba.
- Location(s): Peshawar, World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th century
July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Greer Clovelly seems to have it all, beautiful, chic and slender, she’s used to getting her own way. Greer has been in love with Jesse Behenna since her first day at school and she’s determined that one day, they’ll...
- Location(s): Ireland, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
This is a captivating debut novel about forbidden love…Cathleen Brogan is a young widow, struggling to bring up her family in 1960s orth London. Times are tough for the Irish immigrants who live there, their hardships comforted by the...
- Location(s): Cumbria, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Jessie Whelan has always been a good liar, trying to protect her independence and her career as a teacher. But she risks everything when, after years of discreet loneliness, she embarks on a love affair. In the meantime, her...
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- Location(s): Louisiana, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
These fictional short stories capture the true experiences of the hardships of coming to America. With great sensitivity, Robert Olen Butler introduces us to the colorful lives of Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana.
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