- 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...
- Location(s): Florence, Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2, 1950s
1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends...
- Location(s): East Sussex, Beachy Head
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sarah stands on the brink, arms open wide as if to let the wind carry her away. She s come to the high cliffs to be alone, to face the truth about her life, to work out what to...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Stories intersect as we follow Alan, the weekend guardian for his teenage monosyllabic son and Karen, has reluctantly come on a hen weekend for her daughter: Marion is having weekend with her husband who worries about their relationship. Set...
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
- Location(s): Beachy Head, Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
After the break-up of her marriage, Imogen escapes to her aunt’s converted lighthouse on Beachy Head. Writing for a tedious online magazine but hoping to start a novel, she wants to be alone until she finds an entrancing flamenco...
- Location(s): Algeria, Sahara
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
Does forever lie in the lion’s embrace? Arrogant, selfish and dangerous, Lucas Saintclair is everything Harriet Montague dislikes in a man. He is also the best guide in the whole of the Barbary States and the only man who...
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan – and fast – to keep her café and customers...
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