- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1770s
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2020
Venice, June 2020. The city has returned to the Venetians during a merciful pause in the Covid pandemic, and few overseas visitors are to be seen. Yet Dominic Vicari, a British private investigator haunted by loss, has travelled across...
- Location(s): England, Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 2019 / 1780s
In 2019, Rachel is stuck in a rut when she discovers what appears to be a Canaletto painting in her grandmother’s loft along with a note addressed to Philippa in 1782. With help from Jake at the local art...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes...
- Location(s): Guyana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and present day
The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying culture and...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
What if you had said yes? The moments that change everything… One Day meets Sliding Doors in this outstanding debut that is causing a buzz across the publishing world Some moments can change your life for ever. Have you...
- Location(s): Goa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1990s
You go to Goa for sun, sea, sand and serious prawn curry. For cheap drugs, full moon parties and a time-warped hippy vibe. To find yourself, lose yourself, chill yourself right out. But murder? Police corruption? Obsessive revenge? Maybe...
- Location(s): Benin (Danhomè), Ouidah
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1812
In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 21st century
The Vietri Project is a riveting, shifting quest, an evocative trip to Rome, and a beautiful portrayal of the ways you need to return to the past in order to move forward. A great delight from start to finish.”–Lily...
- Location(s): Yosemite, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1934
1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to make ends meet and her older brother serves with the CCC at Yosemite, she manages the household and comforts her younger sister with stories...
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