1920s, Long Island. In part a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an...

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux’s account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes – the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden...

The Greater Journey focuses on the period between 1830 and 1900, when hundreds of Americans–many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, John Singer Sargent and Harriet Beecher Stowe–migrated to Paris. McCullough shows...

American writer Nora Tierney is living at Ramsey Lodge in England’s glorious Lake District, anticipating two life-changing events: the publication of her first children’s book and the birth of her first child. Choosing a name for her son and...

This is a very vivid picture vivid picture of Greece, in part the one of white washed walls and hot pine needles, the sea…. but there is also more detailof the relationships and what was going on in the...

When Emma sees The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay for sale, she knows it’s the seaside haven she needs to recover from a recent trauma. But as soon as Emma collects the keys, her dream of owning a successful guesthouse...

The resort of their dreams. A destination to die for… WELCOME TO PARADISE! Or so the staff say when they greet the Hamiltons at the idyllic Asana Fushi resort in the Maldives. And it starts off that way: champagne...

For most people, being a single mother to three boys (two of them teenagers), sorting out your feelings for an ex-boyfriend who’s now an international film star, pacifying an elderly father who keeps asking why you’re not married, tolerating...

On a night-time walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, besides which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him...

A rock chick. An artist with attitude. A girl with a past. A party animal. Four lives collide when one of the world’s most famous paintings is stolen. It’s a mystery that has the nation talking, but while Picasso’s...