- Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1794
In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...
- Location(s): World
- Era(s): N/A
Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet’s lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker’s pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the...
As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
Laurie Lee knows one sentence in Spanish – will you please give me a glass of water. That is enough to take him down to the South Coast of England over to Spain at a time when all the...
- Location(s): Burnham-on-Sea
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Rock climbing is now a blood sport. Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, is dead. Killed in a fall whilst practising a new route on High Rock, Cheddar Gorge. Convinced that Jake would not have made...
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
For decades, the Kennedy name has been synonymous with wealth, power, and―above all else―integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the Kennedy men’s legacy of physical and psychological abuse of women, part of a tradition of...
At Home in the Pays d’Oc: The story of two accidental expatriates
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
This is the story of how a small brown and white spaniel turned the lives of two English holidaymakers upside down. Patricia and her husband Patrick are spending the summer in their holiday home in the Languedoc village of...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
Flann O’Brien’s innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics. Flann O’Brien’s first...
- Location(s): Büyükada
- Era(s): 2017 looking back
Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather...
- Location(s): Deptford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Sam falls in love with Deptford thug Derek, and Anne’s best friend Kathleen takes her own life, they discover they are linked not just by a world of drugs and revenge; they also share the friendship of the...
Atticus Arnott’s Great Adventure
- Location(s): Northern Spain
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): current
Escape to sunny Spain in this heartwarming romcom full of romance, self-discovery and the magic of saying yes to adventure. “A gorgeous story, for all ages, full of heart and hope – sure to inspire a wave of readers...
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