- Location(s): South India
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1300s-1600s
In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century / later 20th Century
VIENNA PASSION is the autobiography of Rosa, a chambermaid, royal mistress and murderess, whose life mirrors all the sordid glamour of Vienna at the turn of the century. It is interleaved with the story of a tentative romance: that...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd time – Jill ‘Doll’ Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A...
- 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...
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