- Location(s): Pembrokeshire
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Current
Jesse Stevens needs to escape her past, start a new life and feel safe. The rugged coastline and tight-knit community of Castleby offers her that chance. Her new job with the local lifeboat crew gives her the stability and...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1700s
It is two years since Thomas Kydd was spirited away in the night to serve his country aboard the old line-of-battle ship Duke William. Now, he and and the other members of the ill-fated Artemis are shipwrecked sailors, back...
- Location(s): Berlin, Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction
Description: In the rubble of post-World War II Berlin, artist Charlotte flees her past and everything she’s lost by responding to an ad calling for ‘strong women who can cook and do farm work’ in Iceland. But painful memories...
- Location(s): Argyll and Bute
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Kate’s dumped on her best friend’s wedding day by boring boyfriend Ian. She’s mostly cross because he got in first – until she remembers she’s now homeless as well as jobless. Faced with moving back home to her ultra-bossy mother,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1700s (French Revolution)
It’s the summer of 1788 and Paris is ablaze with revolutionary ideas. Swept along in the excitement is Asa Ardleigh, a 19-year-old Englishwoman visiting the city with her newly-married sister, Philippa. At the literary salon of Madame de Genlis...
Seasons of Migration to the North
- Location(s): The Sudan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
‘SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire...
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and 2012 L.A. Times First Novel Prize The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 17th Century
It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, where everything is forbidden and anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner, but knowledge is still the property...
Secret London – an Unusual Guide (Jonglez Guides)
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Explore London in a very different and unusual way. This is not a typical guidebook, but takes you off the beaten track – away from the bustling tourist hub. Pray in a floating church, for example, or sail on...
- Location(s): Muscat, Sahara
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1833
Melding historical detail with sympathetic characterisation. It is 1833 and William Wilberforce has brought about the abolition of slavery in the British Empire: elsewhere others are less fortunate. Zena, a beautiful and headstrong young Abyssinian girl, is captured by...
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