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An Island in the Sun

An Island in the Sun
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Madeira
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Running away is easy, until saying goodbye becomes too hard… When successful songwriter Tabitha Callahan swaps a summer of sadness for pet sitting around the world, she intends to use the time to heal her broken heart. Tabitha can’t...

Another Day in Paradise

Another Day in Paradise
  • Author(s): Karen Telling
  • Location(s): Carvoeiro, Portugal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2003

A warm-hearted, autobiographical story about the location and lifestyle in a small village in the Algarve, as seen through the eyes of Karen, and her husband Nick, who made the move seeking a quieter, more serene way of life....

Bad Apples (The Beatrice Stubbs Series)

Bad Apples (The Beatrice Stubbs Series)
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

“Some people are just rotten to the core.” Acting DCI Beatrice Stubbs is representing Scotland Yard at a police conference in Portugal. Her task is to investigate a rumour – a ghostwritten exposé of European intelligence agencies – and...

Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda
  • Author(s): José Saramago
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her...

Burke and the Lines of Torres Vedras

Burke and the Lines of Torres Vedras
  • Author(s): Tom Williams
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Peninsular War (1810)

James Burke, after years of spying for the British, is sent to Lisbon as a spy catcher. To the north of the city, the British are building a line of defences designed to stop and trap the French. But...

By Force of Circumstance

By Force of Circumstance
  • Author(s): J G Harlond
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century (English Civil War)

“For sale: the English Crown Jewels” Ludo da Portovenere returns to his former piratical ways when the Queen of England commissions him to sell priceless gems to raise money for the Royalist cause during the Civil War. But will...

City of Spies

City of Spies
  • Author(s): Mara Timon
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1943

943LISBON, 1943. After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, receives new orders: she must infiltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and find out who is leaking key information to the Germans about British troop...

Dan Knew

Dan Knew
  • Author(s): F J Curlew
  • Location(s): Tallinn, East Lothian, Kyiv, London, Parnu, Portugal, Scotland, Vilnius
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002 - 2016

A puppy born to the dangers of street life. A woman in trouble. An unbreakable bond. A Ukrainian street dog is rescued from certain death by an expat family. As he travels to new countries with them a darkness...

Deaf Wish

Deaf Wish
  • Author(s): Geoff Cook
  • Location(s): Portugal, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): last two decades

Deaf Wish is a dark, contemporary family drama set in Wales, Northern Portugal and Spain’s Costa de La Luz. Gil is a man seeking reconciliation with the wife and two sons he abandoned sixteen years earlier for a younger...

Death On The Algarve (Eyes Of The Water)

Death On The Algarve (Eyes Of The Water)
  • Author(s): K E Heaton
  • Location(s): The Algarve
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Anthony Smith plans a holiday to Portugal with his pretty girlfriend Barbara. Regrettably, a young woman’s death casts a shadow over what should be an idyllic summer vacation. Barbosa’s investigation is compromised by misleading information but the Inspector remains...

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