- 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...
- Location(s): Austrian Alps
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First 3/4 20th Century
Long listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 ‘Heart-rending and heart-warming . . . for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.’ Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Era(s): Early 20th century
A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between...
- Location(s): South West Germany
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1926
South-West Germany, 1926. The disappearance of a baby girl calls for Constable Theodore Hildebrandt and his son Klaus to visit the remote village of Hindelheim, a place where nothing ever happens. But the news of the missing baby has...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding,...
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