- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Part memoir, part Irish travels, part lunatic endeavour, Jasper Winn’s account of paddling round Ireland in a kayak, during one the worst summers in recent history, is both hugely inspiring and entertaining. A journey of the mind – as...
- Location(s): Oklahoma
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1900s
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Second half twentieh Century
Three women struggle to survive in this savage account of Vietnam’s Maoist-style land reform of the 1950s and its aftermath. Hang, a young woman, tells of the hardship, chaos and disillusionment it sowed, dividing her family and shattering the...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Parallel Lines is an edgy, fast-paced crime thriller set in the streets of Glasgow that tells the story of the deadly rivalry between Detective Sergeant Gus Thoroughgood and his criminal nemesis, Declan Meechan. With Meechan on the verge of...
Parallel Lines: a Journey from Childhood to Belsen
- Location(s): Hungary
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
This is a story of a young boy s journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. After a winter in Bergen-Belsen where his father died, he and...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various
City of love. City of splendour. City of terror. City of dreams.Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that...
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 – 1949
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
This covers the post war period, well researched and, as always with Beevor, an intelligent and well reserached book.
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 2000s
In 2009, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. Paris in...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW1
Autumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches, although that hasn’t stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher Marlowe ‘Kit’...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
It all begin with this question: how much money does it take to quit your job? Despite having achieved her career goals in LA, Janice Macleod was on the verge of burnout, and she had to find an escape....
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