- Location(s): The Peloponnese
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
After an Arctic winter, a British recession, and a downturn in the newspaper industry, two journalists and their dog embark on an adventure in the wild and beautiful southern Peloponnese. A perfect plan, except for one thing – Greece...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian times
London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has...
Things That Crash, Things That Fly
- Location(s): Italian Alps, Greenville
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
As a husband and wife plan an Italian vacation with friends—to visit her family’s Tuscan village—she makes a last-minute addition to the itinerary: she plans to leave him when they return. And her bombshell includes a caveat. He isn’t...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 20th Century / various
The Palace of the Republic, that once housed the East German parliament, is demolished. A grandmother’s laughter passes from life into memory. Furniture that once made a home is taken to the tip. A friendship drops into silence. Old...
- Location(s): Florence, Delhi, Kashmir, Positano
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
After ending a long-term relationship, Rachel Grosvenor goes to stay with friends in Florence, where she meets the attractive Sicilian businessman, Tommaso. Despite her friends’ concerns, she marries him weeks later, only to learn at the end of their...
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 60 years ago
Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her....
Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather’s wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire...










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