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Under a Greek Moon

Under a Greek Moon
  • Author(s): Carol Kirkwood
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary, looking back 20 years

She can escape Hollywood, but can she escape her past? A-list actress Shauna Jackson has the perfect life. Fame, fortune, marriage. Or so it seems. Running from a scandal, Shauna must return to the place that changed her life...

Under a Maltese Sky

Under a Maltese Sky
  • Author(s): Nicola Kearns
  • Location(s): Malta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

1 (The Malta Saga) Being caught up in war is not what Ana Mellor expects when she lands in Malta to join her Wing-Commander father. In the midst of horror and destruction, the courage and resilience of the Maltese...

Under a Parrot Sky

Under a Parrot Sky
  • Author(s): Rachel Delahaye
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Lily is devastated when her parents make her give up her sunshine-filled South African holiday to accompany them on a work trip to freezing Norway. Worse still, she has to stay with a family she’s never met and fit...

Under a Pole Star

Under a Pole Star
  • Author(s): Stef Penney
  • Location(s): Arctic, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. Years later, in 1892, determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland as a scientist at the head of a British expedition, defying the expectations of...

Under a Riviera Moon

Under a Riviera Moon
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemorary

When a heartsick Maggie is sent on an errand by her mother to Cannes, she is keen to get it over with as quickly as possible. She has been tasked with collecting a treasured box of photos from her...

Under a Sardinian Sky

Under a Sardinian Sky
  • Author(s): Sara Alexander
  • Location(s): Ozieri
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1950s

For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful...

Under A Sicilian Sky

Under A Sicilian Sky
  • Author(s): Lisa Hobman
  • Location(s): Sicily, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Global box office sensation, Ruby Locke, is a long way from her Yorkshire roots. Together with her fiancé, movie heartthrob Tyler Harrison, they are Hollywood’s new glitterati. Overnight, Ruby’s life implodes when her social media accounts are hacked with...

Under a Summer Skye

Under a Summer Skye
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, The Sleat Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Scottish island. A stranger from the mainland. A summer of possibilities… ESCAPE TO THE ISLE OF SKYE THIS SUMMER WITH THE SUNDAY TIMES AND MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, AND LOSE YOURSELF IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE SKYE SISTERS...

Under A Tuscan Sky

Under A Tuscan Sky
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Olivia Montague’s grandmother passes away, she decides it’s finally time to make some changes in her own life. So she breaks up with her ‘going nowhere’ boyfriend and embarks on a journey to her Nonna’s home in Tuscany....

Under Chad’s Spell

Under Chad’s Spell
  • Author(s): Michael Varga
  • Location(s): Chad
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Charlene, a 23-year-old from chilly Minnesota, volunteers to go to Chad, Africa with the Peace Corps in the turbulent 1970s. Young and full of ideals, she hopes to ease the lives of Chadians, but worries about what prompted her—inexperienced...

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