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The Whispering Wind

The Whispering Wind
  • Author(s): Lexa Dudley
  • Location(s): Italy, Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Whispering Wind is a moving story of two lovers, set on the beautiful island of Sardinia, where Elise goes on holiday to escape a loveless and violent marriage. Whilst there, she meets and falls in love with Beppe,...

A Year and a Day

A Year and a Day
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For Megan, visiting Prague with her friend Ollie is just business. Nothing more. Because if she admits the truth she might lose everything. For Hope, this trip is a surprise treat from Charlie, her new partner. But she’s struggling...

Her Mother’s Secret

Her Mother’s Secret
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Belle-Île-en-Mer, Sauzon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland – the magical island of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Southern Brittany – afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears...

A Cottage by the Sea

A Cottage by the Sea
  • Author(s): Carole Matthews
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Grace has been best friends with Ella and Flick forever. The late-night chats, shared heartaches and good times have created a bond that has stood the test of time. When Ella invites them to stay for a week in...

A Little Place in Prague

A Little Place in Prague
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been years since Anna has seen Leo Knight. And of all the apartments in all the cities in all the world, he just happens to walk in to her cosy new attic home – as her new housemate....

A Month in Provence

A Month in Provence
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Interior designer Nicky always used to know how to make the best of things. Ever since she lost her husband though, things haven’t been easy. She’s had to raise her two daughters alone and she’s so proud to see...

A Place in the Hills

A Place in the Hills
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Rome, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1st Century AD, Modern

Antonia had become obsessed with a long-dead poet, Cassius. A soldier and lover, he had lived in the hills of Provence in Roman times where Antonia was now engaged in an archaeological dig. Her father was hoping to uncover...

A Venetian Affair

A Venetian Affair
  • Author(s): Andrea di Robilant
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

It’s hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long and forbidden love affair of the 18th-century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne. Andrea Di Robilant’s A Venetian Affair is drawn in...

And Then There Was You

And Then There Was You
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lonely people. One song to change their lives… Merryn Rowe adores her life in St Ives. The café she owns and the community she serves are her much-needed second chance after a heart-breaking divorce. But as she gazes...

Aphrodite’s Tears

Aphrodite’s Tears
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is set on the fictional island of Helios, but as the author explains in this #TalkingLocationWith…  article, the inspiration is very clearly Santorini. A young archaeologist who travels to the remote island of Helios (based on the...

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