- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson’s terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon...
- Location(s): Northern France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Four Seasons in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city...
Toward That Which Is Beautiful
- Location(s): Altiplano, Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1964-1965
Sister Mary Katherine, a young American nun, is working in a small town in the Highlands of Peru in 1964. One day she slips away from the convent with no money and no destination. Disoriented in a culture not...
Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950's
It’s 1952 in the small western Kentucky town of Paducah and Mrs. Minerva Place would prefer everyone mind his own business, follow the rules, and if dead, stay dead. Nosy neighbors and irritating church members are bad enough but...
- Location(s): Ireland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
Part one of a trilogy charting a love story that sees two Irish young people both end up in the new young country of New Zealand. In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining...
- Location(s): Eritrea, Asmara
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably...
- Location(s): Cumbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
After many generations, it is now, in 1971, Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his father’s presence, and there is hope that he, his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes the further you distance yourself, the closer you are to the truth.What starts out as a simple trip around India soon becomes a psychological journey into the darkness of Sam’s past. One he knows there’s no running from.When...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 13TH Century
Tower of London 1214… Maude de Mandeville is dying. Murdered by a poisoned egg for rejecting King John’s advances. As she stands before Death, she makes a pact with the Devil to avenge her murder and return as a...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
In the seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father. But, when an aging playboy and the newly crowned Blueberry Queen are killed, Candy...
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