- Location(s): Australia, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1940s
- Location(s): Maputo (Lourenço Marques)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenço Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life afresh. Stumbling across...
A Village in the Valley (3 in Allways Trilogy)
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
This reprint of the third book in Nichols’ “Allways Trilogy” contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols’ biographer. Set in the English countryside, the hilarious memoir is as much about the author’s love for plants as it...
- Location(s): Jerez, Cuba (Republic of), Mexico City
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
1861. A ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from Mexico City to seek his fortune in the New World. Mauro Larrera has just four months to pay his creditors, or his bankruptcy will be revealed and his family’s honour will...
- Location(s): England, Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 20th Century
Do fairytale dresses bring fairytale endings? Every dress has a history, so does Phoebe… Phoebe always dreamt of opening her own vintage dress shop. She imagined every detail, from the Vivienne Westwood bustiers hanging next to satin gowns, to...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): 2000s
When an American mother-of-three finds herself overwhelmed in her new home in Switzerland, a visitor pops up offering to cure her son’s asthma, her husband’s growing indifference, and her own resentment of life. Is he the village nutter or...
- Location(s): India, Paris, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Ahalya Ghai is just seventeen when a tsunami rips through her Indian village. Ahalya and her sister Sita are the sole survivors of their family. Destitute, their only hope is to find refuge at a convent in Chennai, many...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Retired Vancouver Police officer Sam Watson has little use for religion. When his only son, Jeff, commits to missionary service in Thailand, Sam is understandably upset. An uneasy long distance relationship continues until the unthinkable happens, Jeff is murdered....
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1950s
Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s moving forward
A compelling story of war, secrets, family and history that will draw you into the heart of Paris and its troubled past. Paris, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her...
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