- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
The House on the Beach is a novel set in the years after the Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator General Francisco Franco. Childhood friends, Rocio and Inma, come from very different worlds. Inma is...
- Location(s): Cardiff, Pembrokeshire
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Billed as the first in a series, the book begins with what looks like a straightforward case for psychotherapist Jessica Mayhew. A strikingly attractive young actor, Gwydion Morgan, turns up at her office requesting help with his button phobia....
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
At the intimate house-warming party for her glorious ‘grand design’, Kathleen confides in her best friend Beth that she is terrified of one of their close friends, but daren’t reveal which one. The guests are a tight-knit group, but...
- Location(s): Cradock, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a harsh landscape, she finds solace in her diary and...
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Anna Fekete, who fled the Yugoslavian wars as a child, has just started working as a criminal investigator in a northern Finnish coastal town, when she is thrust into a rolling murder investigation. It doesn t help that her...
- Location(s): France, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a...
- Location(s): Romania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
In January 1945, the Russians demanded that all Romanian Germans between 17 and 45 be relocated to labor camps in the Soviet Union to rebuild the devastated country. Müller’s mother was sent there for five years. Half a century...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
REFUGEE CAMPS IN AFRICA ARE SWELLING And Europe has closed its borders. The refugees have no future, no hope, and no money to pay the vast sums now demanded by people smugglers. The only thing they have is time....
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Raped then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin Shui’s ‘Hungry Ghost’ clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, which is destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom...
- Location(s): The Sundarbans - Bay of Bengal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh,.. focuses on The Sunderbans – a vast archipelago of islands lying below Calcutta on the gulf between India and Bangladesh. Two travellers travel into the area – Piya, an American scientist of Indian...
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