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- 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): Portugal
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 1970s
When Simon, a young gay English teacher, goes to work in southern Portugal, he doesn’t expect to find a country in the aftermath of a peaceful revolution, nor to have an affair with Elaine, a female colleague. As both...
- Location(s): London, Madeira
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1420s-2000s
Distant Music comprises four different stories, spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The book starts out in Madeira in 1429, with the backdrop of Portugal as a marine empire, Christopher Columbus features briefly, anti-Semitism is a recurring...
- Location(s): Devon, Portugal
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Charlotte Pascoe returns to Devon to work with her father in the family boatyard, she is horrified to discover that he is about to sell the site to Raphael da Silva, a property developer. Unable to pursue her...
- Location(s): Madeira
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The last thing recently widowed Julia Probyn expects to find on the lush and charming island of Madeira is a clue to her husband’s mysterious death, for Colonel Jamieson perished somewhere in the wilds of Central Asia while on...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Raimund Gregorius is a Swiss middle-aged teacher of ancient languages in Bern. His routine id disturbed when he has a strange encounter with a Portuguese woman. He learns of the work of Amadeu Prado and is energised into travelling...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Lazaro family are carpenters who would rather be piano-makers. In the dusty back room of their carpentry shop in Lisbon is the ‘piano cemetery’, filled with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing and rebuilding...
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