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Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
  • Author(s): Kapka Kassabova
  • 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...

Strictly Murder

Strictly Murder
  • Author(s): Julie Wassmer
  • 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...

Studio Saint-Ex

Studio Saint-Ex
  • Author(s): Ania Szado
  • 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...

Suffer the Litte Children

Suffer the Litte Children
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • 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...

Sugar in the Blood

Sugar in the Blood
  • Author(s): Andrea Stuart
  • 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...

Summer At The Lake

Summer At The Lake
  • Author(s): Erica James
  • 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

Summer at the Santorini Bookshop
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • 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...

Summer in the South

Summer in the South
  • Author(s): Cathy Holton
  • Location(s): Woodburn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1980s

After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her charming hosts...

Summer Loving

Summer Loving
  • Author(s): Allie Spencer
  • Location(s): Khios (Chios)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Trouble for four girlfriends Beth, Kirsten, Anna and Ginny,who go away for a holiday to a Greek Island.

Summer Secrets

Summer Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Green
  • Location(s): London, Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

June, 1998. At twenty-seven, Cat Coombs is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. When she discovers the identity of the father she never knew she had, it sends her into a spiral. She...

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