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- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1943
943LISBON, 1943. After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, receives new orders: she must infiltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and find out who is leaking key information to the Germans about British troop...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they’ve faced it all – be it Orla’s struggles as a new mother or Kate’s messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to...
- Location(s): Venice, Dorset, Lisbon, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchanting new holiday read about family bonds and following your heart, wherever it might take you… With her marriage in danger of falling apart, Joanna returns home to...
- Location(s): Angola, Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal...
- Location(s): Europe, Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Night Train to Lisbon is a sensuous tale of the pursuit of love and passion against all odds, set in the 1930s when the world was on the brink of war and suspicion of loyalty, motivation, and intent —...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Set in a luxurious grand hotel just outside Lisbon, at the height of the Second World War, Estoril is a delightful and poignant novel about exile, divided loyalties, fear and survival. The hotel’s guests include spies, fallen kings, refugees...
- Location(s): Lisbon, Sintra
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Work to impress, dance to express. It’s a long way to go to create a new life for yourself. Classical ballerina, Flora Gatehouse, has no choice but to take a risk. Having failed an important ballet audition in London,...
- Location(s): Faro, Lisbon, The Algarve
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past where two...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1974
The Return of the Caravels is a powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, “the greatest living Portuguese writer” (Vogue). It is set in Lisbon as Portugal’s African...
- Location(s): Berlin, Lisbon
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1940s and 1990s
Europe, 1941: Lisbon is one of the world’s tensest cities, and as the Nazis and Allies jostle for power, Iberia becomes a fulcrum for the menace that is about to engulf Europe. Klaus Felsen, torn from his Berlin factory...
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