- Location(s): Appalachians, Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
When fledgling writer Zoe arrives at the Sicilian holiday home of famed novelist Don Travers, she feels that she has made it. And yet as the week unfolds it is not Don but his children and unknowable wife, Lydia,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1963
At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling...
- Location(s): Russia, Belarus
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Looking back to WW2
Extraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War – from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have...
The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Theodora Quirke has no reason to be merry. It’s bad enough that she has to work on Christmas Eve but now there’s a drunk bloke dressed as Santa and claiming to be St Nick hanging around outside her...
- Location(s): Somerset, Corsham, Corsham Court, London, The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
He wasn’t banking on someone else taking the reins… Lady Estelle Foxbrooke is done cleaning up the mess left by her wild parents. She’s got a plan: take the reins and save the family estate her way. But then...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead. So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World...
- Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Longlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series. How far would you run to escape your past? Venice...
- Location(s): Australia, Germany, Iceland, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
All Maya Galen wanted was a happy family, stifling the inner urges she had to explore the wider world, for the sake of being there for her children. But parenting with her husband, Con, wasn’t always easy. Their eldest...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Brilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti-Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the...
- Location(s): French Alps, Geneva
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1914 - 1976
In 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine builds a chalet high up in the French Alps and every summer les rosbifs arrive, to the benefit of the curious locals who work for them. For Mathilde, one of the domestic ‘uglies’ chosen...
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