- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
A life-changing move to Spain… This is the inspirational story of moving to a new country with nothing, then really living your dreams. Turning up in Madrid without a word of Spanish, Ben soon finds a job, beautiful language...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1900s onwards
This book, written by journalist Blaine Harden, brings to life the terrible reality of life in one of North Korea’s many Gulags that still exist today. The story of a young man, Shin Dong-Hyuak, who spent the first 26...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 2015
Prague 2015. Herbert Biely, aged hero of the Prague Spring, stands on the brink of an historic victory, poised to reunite the Czech and Slovak Republics twenty-six years after the Velvet Revolution. The imminent Czech elections are the final...
- Location(s): Wye Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Riverdean is nestled in the picturesque Wye Valley, and Pippa Mason has big plans to renovate run-down Pumpkin Cottage into the bed and breakfast business of her dreams. Pippa is settling in and even starting to fall for handsome...
- Location(s): Norwegian Fjords
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
High-powered lawyer Sara thought she had life figured out – until her whirlwind marriage ends in divorce, her dream promotion slips away and a burnout diagnosis forces her to take a break. Desperate for a reset, she books a...
Espresso Tales (#2 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
From the back cover: Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat Macgregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself invited to...
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
- Location(s): Canada, Saskatchewan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression and of the two pupils who fall...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
It is December 1932 and Andrew Bankson, isolated for several years whilst studying a tribe in New Guinea, is increasingly frustrated by his research. Then on Christmas Eve, he meets Nell Stone, famous and controversial anthropologist, and her wry,...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1920s
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 13th – 17th February 2012. Best known as the author of ‘The Road to Oxiana’ (published in 1937), Robert Byron developed his considerable writing skills on a travel book which has not...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Autofiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Traversing the country in a hired cab,...
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