- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
A small group of foodies take an ultimate road trip adventure, delving into the pleasures of Spain, the country’s regional cuisine, art, history, and culture, as they’ve never been seen before. Many lovely photos, anecdotes, and over seventy recipes...
- Location(s): London, Guernica, The Basque Country
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1937-1947
“Mother declared herself happy.” A woman’s life has been cast in shadow by her connection to the Spanish Civil War and the Basque child refugees from that war in the late 1930s. We follow Lorna from the days in...
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1937
Warsaw in the late 1930s,the looming menace of Hitler’s Germany on one side and Stalin’s Russia on the other. Colonel Mercier is a French military attache based in Warsaw, and is given the task to discover how, if war...
- Location(s): Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Post World War II
From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring U.S. Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany. When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s and modern
The spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster; the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three men on the beach are digging a hole, covertly watched by a young boy. His intrigue turns...
- Location(s): Abéné
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Khady pulled out a breast and with a deadly aim fired milk at the chameleon. If I don t offer it milk, our son will grow up to look like a lizard, she explained. Clearly I had a lot...
- Location(s): Jordan, Palestine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early/Mid 20th Century
The storyline is of a fictional village in Palestine, 1929-1967, a place that comes to life via wonderfully drawn characters.
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Shortly after burying her unfaithful husband, Georgia Peyton unexpectedly inherits the derelict Stardust motel from a distant relative. Despite doubts from the community and the aunt who raised her, she is determined to breathe new life into it. But...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1960s, Modern
Starlings is a daisy-chain novel set in Brighton. Each chapter tells the story of one of its varied inhabitants. Disparate lives collide in surprising ways, showing that destinies are often shaped by those we live beside. In a coastal...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell: shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East...
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