- 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,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1958
‘I swore by Elvis and all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage dream I was out for kicks and...
- Location(s): The Western Cape
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend Brett Lynch, lover of La Scala diva Flavia Petrelli, has been savagely beaten. Then a man’s body is found and a terrible confrontation awaits Brett...
- Location(s): Liguria
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
An electrifying thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly. Forced into retirement because of ill-health, Commissario Domenico Martelli is hired to investigate a grotesque and disturbing murder. The case brings him into conflict with his former colleagues...
Across Many Mountains: three Daughters of Tibet
- Location(s): India, Switzerland, Tibet
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s onward
In 1950 the Chinese invaded Tibet. This book describes the journey from Tibet to India describes the journey and the story of three generations of Tibetan women: Kunsang, Sonam and Yangzom, Sonam’s daughter. They flee to the refugee camps...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, a seminal work of political fiction—as relevant today as when it was first published....
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