There’s a Centipede in My Pyjamas: An English Family in Seychelles
- Location(s): Seychelles
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
t’s February 2011, the recession is in full swing and jobs are harder to come by than honest politicians. Things are looking grim for unemployed conservationist Martin Varley until he lands a dream job in the Seychelles. He, his...
There’s a Monster Behind the Door
- Location(s): Réunion (Reunion)
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The name Dessaintes is one to reckon with. A bombastic, violent and increasingly dangerous clan, little do they know that their downfall is being chronicled by one of their own. This is La Réunion in the 1980s: high unemployment...
There’s Only One Paris: Tale for our Times
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
“There’s only one Paris, and however hard living here may be, and if it became worse and even harder, a world of good.” — Vincent van Gogh. In the midst of a global pandemic, the artist’s...
There’s Something About Cornwall
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A knight in a shining camper van! Life is far from picture perfect for food photographer, Emilie Roberts. Not only has her ex-boyfriend cheated on her, he’s also stolen her dream assignment to beautiful Venice! Instead, Emilie is heading to the...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2016
Two dead men. Forty suspects. The trial that broke a small South African town “Look what the fucking dogs did to them, someone muttered. No-one mentioned the rope, or the monkey-wrench, or the gun, or the knife, or the...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
A Guardian and Observer Fiction Highlight for 2022 and a Bookseller Editor’s Choice The new novel from the Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 **Available to pre-order now** Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941....
- Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): post WW2
Francine Howard has her life all mapped out until the soldier she planned to marry at WWII’s end writes to tell her he’s in love with a woman in England. Devastated, Francine seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House Any story that starts will also end.’ As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be....
- Location(s): Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret—even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends...
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