- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
This is the story set in the days of Renoir, based on the painting by him, of the same name as the title of the book. Renoir struggles with poverty and recognition of his work. All this bound into...
- Location(s): Nottingham
- Genre(s): Crime, Police Procedural, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The brand-new thriller from the Richard & Judy pick author and six-million-copy best seller. Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven’s family was murdered and only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer....
- Location(s): Egypt, The Sudan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set in 1950s Sudan, LYRICS ALLEY is the story of the powerful and sprawling Abuzeid dynasty. With Mahmoud Bey at its helm, the family can do no wrong. But when Mahmoud’s son, Nur – the brilliant, charming heir to...
- Location(s): Cumbria, Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2019-20
After half a century confined in a psychiatric hospital, Matty has moved to a care home on the Cumbrian coast. Next year, she’ll be a hundred, and she intends to celebrate in style. Yet, before she can make the...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
23-year-old aspiring artist Sophie Walker can think of no better place than the exotic paradise of the Maldives Islands to escape the wrath of her controlling parents, the monotony of her boring legal work and her passionless boyfriend. With...
Madagascar – The Eight Continent
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
‘Whether meeting a leaf-tailed gecko eye to eye… or describing conservation issues and local customs, Peter Tyson provides the most enjoyable book on the natural and cultural history of Madagascar I have ever read.’ George B. Schaller, Wildlife Conservation...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city’s crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman,...
- Location(s): Roosevelt Island
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
In 1887 young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down...
- Location(s): Middle East, South America, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Close encounters with Carpet Casanovas in Turkey. A quest to meet a wizard-like hermit in the Lebanese mountains. Political intrigue in a Chinese classroom. A marriage proposal on a Nicaraguan chicken bus. Vicariously experience these and other adventures when...
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