- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century, Modern
Essential reading for anyone fascinated by the history of the Crystal Palace – and for fans of mind-boggling Victorian railway history . . . It is the mid-19th century, and London is crying out for a cure to the...
- Location(s): China, United States (USA)
- Era(s): Modern
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure. Strange Stones is a far-ranging. thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage-a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling. shrewd cultural insight. and warm sense of humor that are the...
Street Fight in Naples (A City’s Unseen History)
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various, 17th century
Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. Naples is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. Their ancestors came from all over the early Mediterranean to the...
Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable plonk, cheap property, and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy...
- Location(s): Whitstable
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It really is murder on the dance floor… A new dance school opens in Whitstable run by celebrity tango champions – Tony and Tanya Ballard. Pearl Nolan knows herself to be an ace cook and a sharp private eye...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1940s
A sleek, stylish novel set in the sophisticated, dazzling New York of the 1940s, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the first landing of American troops in Europe-a deft, romantic novel about a wartime triangle involving a twenty-two-year-old...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of...
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1640s onwards
In the late 1640s, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation...
- Location(s): Lake Como, Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
It was a wedding invitation that changed everything for Floriana… If she hadn’t been so distracted at the thought of having to witness the one true love of her life get married, she would have seen the car coming....
Summer at the Santorini Bookshop
- Location(s): Santorini
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Greek island holiday. A fake-dating pact. A chance at true love? After losing her job as a book scout, hopeless romantic Evie needs a fresh start. So when she hears that her eccentric grandmother has just taken on...
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