Forbidden Hill (Singapore Saga, Vol.1)
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1820s
On 6 February 1819, Stamford Raffles, William Farquhar, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sultan Hussein signed a treaty that granted the British East India Company the right to establish a trading settlement on the sparsely populated island of Singapore. “Forbidden...
- Location(s): Hiroshima, Japan, Onomichi, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she’s in a relationship that’s run its course. That’s until she stumbles upon a mysterious...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
An artist/designer’s intimate and loving sketches and notes from 50 years of visits to France and looking carefully at aspects of life there, both humble and grand Looking carefully and noting in clear sketches what he sees, Olin presents...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Carcassone
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s to 2017
When Elodie’s parents rejected her, she was sent to live with her controlling grandmother in Marseille. The only sign of her mother’s supposed affection for her were gifts of ruby necklaces which Elodie believed to be genuine. When we...
From Moulin Rouge to Gaudi’s City
- Location(s): France, Spain
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): present day
When Elizabeth receives a diagnosis of breast cancer, she reassesses her life’s to-do list. Having always suppressed her travel longings, she opens her neglected ‘someday’ ledger and takes a much closer look at the contents. After an opportune invitation...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away… so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped– right...
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1991
When Sophie collapses on the set of a television drama, she is forced to take stock of her life. Suspecting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the BBC doctor prescribes an unusual treatment: “Keep a diary.” So, armed with watercolours and with...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian era
Galápagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin’s estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
At dawn on a lonely stretch of road, a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier, DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent, she’s...
- Location(s): Galveston, Louisiana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s
Roy Cady is by his own admission ‘a bad man’. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he’s a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss’s lover, he’s...
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