- Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap), Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds.” The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Pre WW1
It is 1901. Queen Victoria is dead; a new era has begun. And on a cold April morning a young girl stands uncertainly on Liverpool Docks ready to board an emigrant ship that will take her to America and...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1936
Spain, 1936. Felix, a spirited young nurse, has travelled to Spain to help the cause of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. But she is also following Nat, a passionate young man who has joined the International Brigades...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Jack Shepherd is sick of Washington politics, sick of corporate law, and even a little sick of himself. So he hits the road looking for a new start, makes a couple of wrong turns, and winds up in Hong...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She’s an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet – a...
- Location(s): Marrakech
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s
Michael Palin picks A YEAR IN MARRAKESH by Peter Mayle as one of his top ten books. One of those travel classics in the Englishman (of some means) abroad vein, this shows a great deal of sensitivity to both...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely: her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of...
- Location(s): Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The A303 is more than a road. It is a story. One of the essential routes of English motoring and the road of choice to the West Country for thousands of holidaymakers, the A303 recalls a time when the...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
The brand new summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Tess Brookes has always been a Girl with a Plan. But when the Plan goes belly up, she’s forced to reconsider. After accidently answering her flatmate Vanessa’s phone,...
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