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The Venetian Daughter

The Venetian Daughter
  • Author(s): Ella Carey
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

When the Nazis storm into Venice, Evelina receives a terrified note from her best friend, a devoted Jewish schoolteacher: Help me. Evelina rushes to the rescue, but is devastated to find that her friend has been taken. Now Evelina...

The Venetian Mask

The Venetian Mask
  • Author(s): Rosalind Laker
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1770s

The Venetian Sanctuary

The Venetian Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Philip Gwynne Jones
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2020

Venice, June 2020. The city has returned to the Venetians during a merciful pause in the Covid pandemic, and few overseas visitors are to be seen. Yet Dominic Vicari, a British private investigator haunted by loss, has travelled across...

The Venice Secret

The Venice Secret
  • Author(s): Anita Chapman
  • Location(s): England, Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019 / 1780s

In 2019, Rachel is stuck in a rut when she discovers what appears to be a Canaletto painting in her grandmother’s loft along with a note addressed to Philippa in 1782. With help from Jake at the local art...

The Venice Sketchbook

The Venice Sketchbook
  • Author(s): Rhys Bowen
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes...

The Ventriloquist’s Tale

The Ventriloquist’s Tale
  • Author(s): Pauline Melville
  • Location(s): Guyana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and present day

The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying culture and...

The Versions of Us

The Versions of Us
  • Author(s): Laura Barnett
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

What if you had said yes? The moments that change everything… One Day meets Sliding Doors in this outstanding debut that is causing a buzz across the publishing world Some moments can change your life for ever. Have you...

The Vibe

The Vibe
  • Author(s): Rae Stewart
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1990s

You go to Goa for sun, sea, sand and serious prawn curry. For cheap drugs, full moon parties and a time-warped hippy vibe. To find yourself, lose yourself, chill yourself right out. But murder? Police corruption? Obsessive revenge? Maybe...

The Viceroy of Ouidah

The Viceroy of Ouidah
  • Author(s): Bruce Chatwin
  • Location(s): Benin (Danhomè), Ouidah
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1812

In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a...

The Vietri Project

The Vietri Project
  • Author(s): Nicola Derobertis-Theye
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

The Vietri Project is a riveting, shifting quest, an evocative trip to Rome, and a beautiful portrayal of the ways you need to return to the past in order to move forward. A great delight from start to finish.”–Lily...

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