Bluesette “Blue” Stills, a magazine editor from Washington, DC, arrives at her sassy jazz singer friend Nareen Anderson’s apartment in Paris, France, ready to start her vacation. But shock and disappointment grip her when Nareen acts strange and suddenly...

From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio de Janeiro, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Simultaneously familiar and foreign, this...

A Grandmother sets about gathering her brood around her. The real charm is the combination of disparate character who attend. An absorbing read and beautifully brings Provence to life.

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China’s foremost martial arts teacher

On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. When the water and winds subsided, entire...

An editor from New York is getting over breast cancer, and coming to terms with other difficult aspects in her life. A healing romance restores her on the island. And the author takes this opportunity to introduce his readers...

Island in the Sun: Escape to a tropical paradise in this epic story of hidden pasts and family secrets. When successful jewellery designer Isla Ashton unexpectedly inherits her eccentric Aunt Kate’s Caribbean island, she is obligated to return to...

It is 1943, the German army has been defeated at Stalingrad, and the tide is beginning to turn. But on occupied Guernsey, the reality of war seems a lifetime away. Recreating life on the occupied island, this novel asks...

Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a...

1830. Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, a newly married young couple, arrive at the remotest part of the British Isles: St Kilda. He is a minister determined to save the souls of the pagan inhabitants: his pregnant wife speaks no...