The 1 Thing: A Small Epic Journey Down New Zealand’s Mother Road
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Look at a road map of New Zealand and you can’t fail to notice State Highway 1, zigzagging the full length of the two main islands like a crazy zipper down a shapely thigh-length boot. Like a down-under Route...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
An excellent novel in the jungles of Vietnam, during the war. A poignant description.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
THE VICTIM: On the steps of Santa Maria della Salute lies the body of a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest. In the eyes of the Church, she is an abomination. THE INVESTIGATOR: Captain Kat Tapo has...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
The Ottoman Empire is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches that, within days, appear for sale in Europe. Among them is a reliquary, presumed lost for four hundred years and around which an elaborate and mysterious...
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Humour, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The Isle of Wight is the most unlikely place for gang warfare but when Victor Green falls from a tree he lands on Tommy Hewson, gangster, known in the underworlds as Gruesome. Members of Tommy’s gang, the Pretty Boys...
- Location(s): California, France, Italy
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
An irreverent journey through the wine world, indeed it is. Encompassing some historical detail, he visits several wineries and has some wry observations.
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton. Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions and spies on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking in English waters poised to strike at British trade. Smugglers, perilous storms...
- Location(s): Hannibal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
An idyllic snapshot of a boy’s childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author’s work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s....
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
A passionate, tender and captivating story of glamour, infidelity and love, behind the scenes of the most iconic Hollywood movie ever made Rome 1961. The cameras roll on the film set of Cleopatra and the explosive Elizabeth Taylor and...
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