- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Olivier and Madison Malin live the “life” on the exclusive Left Bank. Madison is a film star: her beauty, talent and perfect accent hide her Texan roots and her husband, Olivier, is the darling of the sophisticated Left Bank:...
- Location(s): Iowa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and Various
This book is described as a reworking of I, Claudius, but set on a corn farm “Aurelia” in Iowa. The Grandmother is on her deathbed and talks to her Granddaughter – memories and details of relationships that have permeated...
- Location(s): Malibu
- Era(s): Modern
Julia is in California at her aunt and uncle’s lemon orchard house sitting for them while they are in Ireland. The author pays superb attention to detail, with the vivid descriptions, and characters who are dealing with love, loss,...
- Location(s): Baku, Iran, Turkmenistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
These days, Mark Sava spends more time in tutoring sessions than in cloak-and-dagger rendezvous. The former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan has settled into the modest life of a professor in Baku…until an assassin makes a brazen attempt on...
- Location(s): Falmouth
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute...
The Lewis Man: Book Two of the Lewis Trilogy
- Location(s): Isle of Lewis
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A MAN WITH NO NAME. An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog: the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. A MAN WITH NO MEMORY. But this islander, Tormod...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Thriller
I know your name’s not really Jane Hughes . . . Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She’s happier than she’s ever been but her life...
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
- Location(s): Des Moines, The Midwest
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six,...
- Location(s): Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary, World War 2
A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of “Dreams of My Russian Summers”. In “The Life of an Unknown Man”, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia’s...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Emily Barr’s unputdownable new novel is about a mother of two with a seemingly perfect life who’s cracking up and longing to get away from it all. But when she finally gets to go away, to India, things are...
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