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Devoid Of Guilt (A Portuguese Harvest Of Death)

Devoid Of Guilt (A Portuguese Harvest Of Death)
  • Author(s): K E Heaton
  • Location(s): Portugal, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Maimed for life… that’s Tony Smith after his long running feud with gangster Joe Baxter and his henchmen. So what now?… Will Tony finally acquiesce and admit defeat? Or… will he try one last attempt to put Uncle Joe...

Dogboy v Catfish

Dogboy v Catfish
  • Author(s): Luke Gracias
  • Location(s): Australia, Portugal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1999 / 2015

On the day of her second wedding, Katherine Fisher, aka ‘Catfish,’ set the date for her divorce. In precisely 18 months, she would be entitled to half of their combined assets and receive maintenance payments until her five-year-old daughter,...

Estoril

Estoril
  • Author(s): Dejan Tiago-Stankovic
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Set in a luxurious grand hotel just outside Lisbon, at the height of the Second World War, Estoril is a delightful and poignant novel about exile, divided loyalties, fear and survival. The hotel’s guests include spies, fallen kings, refugees...

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel
  • Author(s): Chris Brookmyre
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2018, 2002

ONE FAMILY, TWO HOLIDAYS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRET To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs...

Forest Dancer

Forest Dancer
  • Author(s): Susan Roebuck
  • Location(s): Lisbon, Sintra
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Work to impress, dance to express. It’s a long way to go to create a new life for yourself. Classical ballerina, Flora Gatehouse, has no choice but to take a risk. Having failed an important ballet audition in London,...

From Madrid to Heaven

From Madrid to Heaven
  • Author(s): Leslie Croxford
  • Location(s): Lisbon, Madrid, Tangier
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

In these stories Madrid is the apex of a triangle stretching to Lisbon and Tangier. Characters meet the unexpected in a borderland between Europe and Africa, from the fall of dictators to a surge in trans-Mediterranean migration. An Arab...

From Venice with Love

From Venice with Love
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Venice, Dorset, Lisbon, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchanting new holiday read about family bonds and following your heart, wherever it might take you… With her marriage in danger of falling apart, Joanna returns home to...

Garden of Stars

Garden of Stars
  • Author(s): Rose Alexander
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s - present day

The Alentejo, Portugal 1934 I am Inês Bretão and I am 18 years old. Now that I am finally an adult and soon to be married, I feel like my real life is about to begin. I have decided...

Her Lisbon Colors

Her Lisbon Colors
  • Author(s): Cynthia Morris
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

After losing a friend, 41-year-old project manager Darla Clarke questions her cautious choices. When she gets a surprise inheritance with a travel requirement, Darla abandons her spreadsheets for a sketchbook and heads to Portugal. ⁠ ⁠ Darla lands in...

History Of The Siege Of Lisbon

History Of The Siege Of Lisbon
  • Author(s): José Saramago
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern/12th Century

What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole...

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