- Location(s): Menorca
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dream holiday. A fractured marriage. A dangerous secret. When Ryan and Emma Burrows win a luxury holiday to Menorca, it feels like the fresh start their marriage desperately needs. Seventeen nights in a sun-soaked villa with their...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Seren Maddison left behind a rainy Britain to follow her dreams and live and work in Lisbon.The vibrancy, the beautiful scenery and the sunshine, made her fall in love and she knew, instantly, that it would be her forever...
- Location(s): South East Asia
The Village is a warm tale of real people living their lives in a faraway land. Set in a small community in mainland Southeast Asia, The Village, sometimes exotic, sometimes simple, is a modern affirmation for those who believe...
- Location(s): South East Asia, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): timeless
The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai. Set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay, Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
“Romantic, descriptive, and evocative… The Village House captures the authentic spirit of a Cypriot village.” – Nadia Marks, best-selling author of Among the Lemon Trees. Katianna receives a solicitor’s letter summoning her to Omodos, a mountain village in Cyprus....
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf. It reads as if Thomas Hardy had been born among the...
- Location(s): Togo, Lavié
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in...
- Location(s): Gateshead, Bournemouth, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Three women caught up in three global disasters. Will tragedy reunite them or tear them apart for ever? Bournemouth 1912 – Ena Leighton prepares for a new life with her aunt and uncle in a beautiful house with a...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Three devoted sisters… One complicated family. When Rosa Quinn left her childhood home in Westenbury, she never expected to return over a decade later as the village vicar. But after a health scare and catching her boyfriend cheating, Rosa...
The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Timeless
A collection of stories drawn from Yoruba legend and tradition, containing characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society and the supernatural. Born in Nigeria, Amos Tutuola’s other works include “The Palm Wine Drunkard.”
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