- Location(s): France, Italy, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Home-loving Laurie thinks she’s happy – she has a safe, reliable boyfriend and working in her local library is what she thought she always wanted. That is until she inherits a vintage Ferrari from her eccentric Uncle Miles and...
From Kauri Trees to Sunlit Seas
- Location(s): The Cook Islands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Don Silk built his first boat, the “Patsy Jean”, with a book on boat building in one hand. Constructed from specially milled Northland kauri, it was launched at Opononi, on the Hokianga Harbour, and in 1959 he set off...
- Location(s): Beirut, Egypt, Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Europe, India
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th Century
Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years later, she set out to achieve her ambition. Her epic journey began during the coldest winter in memory, taking her through Europe, Persia, Afghanistan,...
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Fiction
‘By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?’ When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway – accepting a UN job in Iraq....
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2010
In 2010, when the recession took root in Ireland, the young people looked at the ground they were standing on and realised it was rotten. Rotten in so many ways, but especially in the ways made by man. So...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The novel pinpoints many insights that illuminate the subtle interplay of people in Manila in the 1990’s. Simple and direct… the pages turn at the speed of light.
- Location(s): Bangkok, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s and flashbacks to first half 20th Century
Gambling on Magic is set in Bangkok where life is more than good for Joey Balfour, ex-patriot gambling king, former TV personality, and the current owner of the mysterious and exotic Feng Shui Flower Shop in downtown Bangkok. Then...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
At the Bar Lume, in a small seaside town where everyone knows everyone else, barman Massimo and four old-timers pass the time, between hands of cards and shots of coffee, chatting, arguing and theorising about the murder of a...
- Location(s): Portofino, Verona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Largely set in World War II, Verona, both before and during the German Occupation. Elodie Bertolotti is a very gifted young cellist who becomes involved in the Italian Resistance movement. She plays her cello but everything changes when her...
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