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The House by the Thames

The House by the Thames
  • Author(s): Gillian Tindall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

LAvish, historical book, based on the inhabitants over the centuries of this little house near the Millenium Bridge. Meticulously researched.

The House I Loved

The House I Loved
  • Author(s): Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the...

The House in France: A Memoir

The House in France: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Gully Wells
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (looking back)

In 2009, six years after her mother’s death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother – the glamorous, funny, unpredictable and furiously rude American journalist, Dee Wells. Surrounded by the clutter...

The House Of A Hundred Whispers

The House Of A Hundred Whispers
  • Author(s): Graham Masterton
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a windswept moor, an old house guards its secrets… All Hallows Hall is a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the bleak and misty Dartmoor. It is not a place many would choose to live. Yet the...

The House of Ashes

The House of Ashes
  • Author(s): Stuart Neville
  • Location(s): Belfast, County Antrim
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 60 years

For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance. A new country. A new house. A new beginning with her husband Damien. Then came the knock on the door. Elderly Mary Jackson can’t understand why Sara and...

The House on Cold Hill

The House on Cold Hill
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

The House on Cold Hill is a chilling and suspenseful ghost story from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Dead Simple, Peter James. Moving from the heart of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for Ollie and...

The House on Dream Street

The House on Dream Street
  • Author(s): Dana Sachs
  • Location(s): Hanoi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Dana Sachs travels to Hanoi at a time when tourists were hardly known. This is the story of an American trying to learn about Vietnames culture, conflicted with being in an American in the post war era. A truly...

The House on Paradise Street

The House on Paradise Street
  • Author(s): Sofka Zinovieff
  • Location(s): Athens, Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s forward

When Maud learns that her husband has been killed in a car accident, she is left bereft and bewildered. She has no idea why he was driving on a lonely coastal road outside Athens in the middle of the...

The House On Rockaway Beach

The House On Rockaway Beach
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A gripping tale of family secrets, sibling rivalry and summer romance, set against the backdrop of New York’s sizzling urban beach. Sisters Sophie and Celia haven’t been on speaking terms for years. So it’s a huge shock when they...

The House on Sunset Lake

The House on Sunset Lake
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Casa D’Or, the mysterious plantation house on Sunset Lake, has been in the Wyatt family for over fifty years. Jennifer Wyatt returns there from university full of hope, as summer by the lake stretches ahead of her. Yet by...

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