- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Casablanca’s stinking alleys are the only home that 19 year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the film stars flickering on the local cinemas screen offer the only glimmer of hope to...
- Location(s): Sindh Province
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . . Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she’ll meet her one...
- Location(s): Connemara
- Genre(s): Fiction
Ellen Trawton is running away from it all – quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn’t love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So...
Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls
- Location(s): Chester-le-Street
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1916
Book 2 in The Toffee Factory Trilogy As the Great War rages, Jack’s toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham, is threatened with closure when sugar rations begin. Anne, who works for the owner Mr Jack, must...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Penny Green returned to Italy after a holiday in Australia ready for a challenge. She was looking for a new job and romance, and found work and perhaps love in the toughest Italian city of them all Napoli. Penny...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Martin is a 50-something Yorkshireman with a penchant for swearing and making model aircraft in his shed. He also likes football and many years ago when a small, longhaired Argentinian started to play for Napoli FC, Martin became aware...
- Location(s): Stavanger
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Pal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much more than he can ever hope to pay back on his modest salary as a civil servant. He s desperate that nobody finds out especially not...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Desiree White was walking through the fields of winter wheat and oilseed rape when she saw it. She picked the newspaper bundle out of the ditch and took it to the phone box. Across the baby’s tiny body she...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mysteries, Book 4 London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake is attending renowned artist Damaris Gethin’s latest exhibition, featuring live models who pose as famous killers. But that’s just the warm-up act… Unsure why she was invited, Rachel...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1300s to Modern
In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the...
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