Something of his Art: Walking to Lübeck with J S Bach
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1705
In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lübeck to visit...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
When love begins with a lie, where will it end? Doctor Tristan Ainsworth has returned with his family to the idyllic Cornish village close to where he grew up. The past has taught him some hard lessons, but he’ll...
Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): AD 595
In the late seventh century, the land that we now call Korea was embroiled with political and religious conflicts. Three kingdoms (Silla, Koguryo, and Paekche) fought for supremacy, and three faiths (Shamanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) battled for dominance. Princess...
- Location(s): Corfu, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns to the island … Melissa’s life...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early/Mid 20th Century
The novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s, 1930s
In South from Granada, Brenan chose to live in the small village of Yegen, in the mountains near Granada, well inland and a world away from the larger Andalucian towns. He rented an old home, and some characters who...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Mid 1990s
Dervla Murphy’s journal of her cycle tours of South Africa, before, during, and after the transfer of power in 1994, gives a day-by-day view of that momentous period. When she first pedalled across the Limpopo she fancied that she...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The story revolves about a headmistress who arrives to take over a girls high school in a depressed northern town in the nineteen thirties…
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1920s
When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything. Robert’s adventures in the brooding swamplands – from hard labour to imprisonment to thwarted love – are full of courage, danger and heartbreak. This is story...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The body of Stuart Pedrell, a powerful businessman, is found in a Barcelona suburb. He had disappeared on his way to Polynesia in search of the visionary spirit of Paul Gauguin. Who better to find the killer of a...
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