- Location(s): Devon, Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1966 forward to 2009
The Italian storyline begins in 1966 with Floriana, a ten-year-old girl who lives with her drunken father in a small village in Tuscany. 2009 we meet Marina, a woman in her fifties who runs a hotel on the Devon...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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