- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
A coming-of-age novel, a love story and a tale of life-enhancing friendship: Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer showcases his wit, sophistication and deep knowledge of focaccia in this magical tale set amidst the Tuscan hills. Broke and directionless,...
- Location(s): Lugano, Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Jennifer Logan just buried her husband, the beloved senior senator from Rhode Island. To find solace and peace for her troubled soul, she rents a villa in a small town on the Swiss-Italian border. For the next six months,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Venice 1925. Somebody shoots at two teenagers who jumped a fence to retrieve a ball from Villa Kalman’s garden. A couple of months later, a young man is found severely beaten and unconscious in the shed of the same...
- Location(s): Antibes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Run by sisters Rebecca and Delphine, Villa Sesame is a popular venue for small intimate weddings on the sparkling French Riviera. Beautiful terraces and a horizon pool overlook the Mediterranean, a setting where dreams come true. When recently widowed...
- Location(s): Antibes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Carla Sullivan’s 50th birthday is fast approaching when her whole world is turned upside down. Discovering her feckless husband is having yet another affair and following her mother’s death, she is in need of an escape. Finding an envelope...
- Location(s): Serowe, Botswana
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Serowe:Village of the Rain Wind, Bessie Head blends her skills as a novelist with the actual words of nearly one hundred inhabitants of a Botswanan village called Serowe to present a clear picture of the village community and...
- Location(s): Symi
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2013
A year living on Symi, a Greek island. James’ blog posts from 2013, edited and set out in printed form with images by Neil Gosling, take us through one whole year living on a small Greek island in southwest...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1900s
Get set for another incredible adventure with secret agents extraordinaire, Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lillian Rose! After the dramatic events of their mission to St Petersburg, Sophie and Lil know the truth – there’s a double-agent at work...
- Location(s): Vilnius
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1980s
A dark, enigmatic, and visceral examination of the psychology of repression, Vilnius Poker dives into the minds of four narrators whose contradictory memories challenge the very idea of truth. In this masterpiece written “for the drawer,” Vilnius itself becomes...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilt and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and...
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