- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Novella
Valley of Flowers is a short novel that fights to move, entertain and enlighten. The story opens in the famed Valley of Flowers, or garden of the gods in Northern India. It follows the trek journey of a 17-year-old...
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Fiction
A Peace Corps volunteer has gone missing in Bulgaria and everyone assumes he is dead, everyone except his grandfather, who refuses to give up hope. Retired literature professor Simon Matthews launches a desperate search only to be lured into...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1720-1930
The fourth and final book in the Herries Chronicles. The fourth and final volume of the Herries Chronicles, described as ‘incomparably the best’ in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of ‘effortless brilliance’ (Observer) which starts with the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Vanished is the brilliant new missing persons case in the David Raker series by Tim Weaver. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Mystery, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
With her son, Christian Browning, Daphne du Maurier, who lived in Cornwall for most of her life and used her knowledge of the county in her novels “Rebecca”, “Frenchman’s Creek” and “Jamaica Inn”, chronicles all aspects of this part...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Jack Squire is a successful currency trader on business in Venice. Haunted by recent events in his life, he takes to walking the streets at midnight. He meets the ethereal Caterina, a woman who seems to bear the sadness...
- Location(s): Colón
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1923
One day, before going home to the house he shares with his Chinese-born mother, Varamo is paid his monthly salary in counterfeit money. Instantly recognizing the problem, he is paralyzed with the fear that he will be turned in...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of three people whose paths cross. Amy is an aid worker,who arrives in Afghanistan. She has few illusions about the difficulties she might have to face on a personal level, and struggles to implement the...
- Location(s): Rome, Sardinia
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation record more than just love or murder. They are the storehouse of a city’s mores, emblems of its identity. In Venetian Curiosities, acclaimed...
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