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The Aftermath

The Aftermath
  • Author(s): Rhidian Brook
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1940s

Hamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan has requisitioned a fine house on the...

The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Alexandria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea make up the Alexandria Quartet. Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and...

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

3rd in the “Lemons” Trilogy. The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society finds Chris and his family still living o their farm, El Valero, and with its easy ‘Sun-Lit’ charm and funny, evocative anecdotes, it will draw in new and old...

The Almond Tree

The Almond Tree
  • Author(s): Michelle Cohen Corosanti
  • Location(s): Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This beautifully written and compelling novel is a tale of two Palestinian brothers, one full of anger and hate, the other trying to build a bridge through scientific endeavour. The book vividly brings to life the everyday experiences of...

The Amalfi Curse

The Amalfi Curse
  • Author(s): Sarah Penner
  • Location(s): Positano
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1821

Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse… Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi...

The Amnesia Clinic

The Amnesia Clinic
  • Author(s): James Scudamore
  • Location(s): Ecuador
  • Era(s): 1990s

Fabian and Anti are friends. Fabian lives with his eccentric uncle, Suarez, his Father is dead and his Mother. Anti lives with his exotic expat family who expect him to attend events at the British Embassy at the drop...

The Amount of Evil

The Amount of Evil
  • Author(s): Mark Yarwood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Influential businessmen are being slaughtered across London; each victim is given a local anaesthetic before witnessing his own body being cut to pieces. The decapitated head is then stuck on a pole as warning that revenge is being reaped....

The Amulet

The Amulet
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern day

When Katie loses her office job, a gypsy woman hands her an amulet for good luck. Next, she gets hired as hotel receptionist on the Greek island of Sifnos. One of the guests, heart-stoppingly handsome Aggelos, saves the day...

The Anarchist Detective (Max Cámara 3)

The Anarchist Detective (Max Cámara 3)
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): La Mancha
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Sent on leave after his last, brutal, case, Max Cámara returns to his home town in La Mancha, famous for producing the finest saffron in the world. There, the past keeps pulling at him. The town is exhuming a...

The Angel’s Game

The Angel’s Game
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

David Martin makes a living in Barcelona writing novels under s pseudonym. Following a troubled childhood he has made books his world. From his imagination come the deep mysteries of the deeper side of the city. He lives in...

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