- Location(s): Tangier
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The perfect read for fans of Daphne du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith, set in 1950s Morocco, Tangerine is a gripping psychological literary thriller. The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband...
- Location(s): Bavaria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large...
- Location(s): Chelsea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
You can escape a place. But you can’t escape yourself. Hanna flees the scene of a terrible crime in her native Sligo. If she can just vanish, re-invent herself under a new name, perhaps the police won’t catch up...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): current and 2000 years ago
They say all roads lead to Rome – but some are more important than others. Along 350 miles from Rome to Brindisi, the Appian Way rose from its humble beginnings as a military track to become the engine that...
The Archipelago of Another Life
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin’s reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own...
- Location(s): Florence, Grasse
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Elio Barati’s perfumery shop in Florence marks its entrance with a mosaic star. This shop immerses Elio in the artisanal world he loves, but he harbors a regret. As a young man he created a full-fledged perfume of jasmine,...
The Association of Small Bombs
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Lae 20th Century
On a hot May day in 1996 a car bomb detonates in a Delhi marketplace. Just a ‘small’ bomb, but it is fatal for two Khurana school boys. Their friend Mansoor survives the blast bearing the physical and psychological...
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Saying ‘I Do’ was meant to be the start of her greatest adventure, but when Maya’s fiancé drops dead just moments before he’s set to kiss the bride, her life is spent spinning out of control. Now, as Maya...
- Location(s): Kuwait, The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Ko Samui, Koh Phi Phi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land–forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation...
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