- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California and peopled it with a colourful band of knights. At the center of the tale is...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Marseilles Trilogy, 1) Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in...
- Location(s): British Columbia, Canada
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The day Jessie Cunningham achieves her life’s goal and is made partner in an ultra-powerful Toronto law firm, she suffers a catastrophic burnout. While attempting to recuperate, she volunteers for a charity preserving ancient trees in the wilderness of...
- Location(s): Plymouth
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
Harry likes pretty things. He likes to look at them. Sometimes that isn’t enough. He wants to get closer. Naughty Harry. DI Charlotte Savage and her team in Plymouth are struggling with their investigation into a string of horrific...
- 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...
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