- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting ‘Maud’ to empty sofas: the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and...
- Location(s): El Paso, Juarez
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
El Paso and Ciudad Juárez sit across the Texas / Mexico border from each other. They share streets, share industry, share crime. One gang claims territory in both: Los Aztecas. This single criminal organisation is responsible for most of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Robert arrives in Venice leaving the manipulative and wealthy Curran, his family and the Romanian emigre Anna behind. He soon discovers, however, that they have followed him and are all staying in the Pensione Sofia hotel, which harbours a...
- Location(s): West Texas
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Old West (late 19th century)
She was his brother’s wife… Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. The tall cowboy at the station wasn’t Dallas. He was Houston, Dallas’s...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailand’s multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct. Instead...
- Location(s): Veneto, West Midlands
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. During a family holiday in Italy, you get an urgent call from your sister. There’s been an accident: she hit a man with her car and he’s dead. She asks...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod – where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon – for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in Jack’s peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He’s driving round with his...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
“At villa Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away,” writes bestselling author Marlena de Blasi of the magnificent if somewhat ruined castle in the mountains of Sicily that she stumbles upon one summer while traveling with her husband....
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 2000s
In this delicious contemporary romance, Carol Grace whisks readers away to Italy’s sunny Amalfi Coast, where whitewashed villas and fragrant lemon trees sit high atop craggy cliffs . . . and romance is always in the air. Ever since...
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...
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