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The Novel in the Viola

The Novel in the Viola
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

This book starts off with Elise in her Austrian days, in Vienna, having a lovely time in the early thirties. Swiftly the story picks up at Tyneford House, a mansion on the south coast of Englan, where she is...

The Occasional Virgin

The Occasional Virgin
  • Author(s): Hanan al-Shaykh
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean, reminiscent of their childhoods in Lebanon. Yvonne doesn’t know what she’s doing wrong, either there or back in London where she runs...

The Ocean Liner

The Ocean Liner
  • Author(s): Marius Gabriel
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to escape the concentration camps that claimed the rest of their family. America offers a safe haven, but to reach it they must survive...

The Officer’s Daughter

The Officer’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Zina Rohan
  • Location(s): Germany, Poland, Siberia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s 1940s

This is an epic wartime romance which sees a headstrong young woman face hardship, danger and dilemmas as the forces of history sweep her across continents, while two men compete to claim her heart.It is suitable for fans of...

The Oil Road

The Oil Road
  • Author(s): James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello
  • Location(s): Central Asia, Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2006 onwards

Opening in 2006 after ten years in the making, British Petroleum s $4 billion pipeline, running from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, has become an icon of globalization. Over a thousand miles long, it weaves a route around...

The Old Ways

The Old Ways
  • Author(s): Robert Macfarlane
  • Location(s): United Kingdom

Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world – a landscape of the feet and the mind,...

The Oligarch’s Daughter

The Oligarch’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Moscow, New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 6 years back

THE PAST CAN FIND YOU ANYWHERE Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is...

The Olive Branch

The Olive Branch
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Puglia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Moden

You can buy almost anything online these days. For Ruthie Collins, it was an Italian farmhouse. Yet as she battles with a territorial goat and torrential rain just to get through the door of her new Italian home, the words...

The Olive Harvest

The Olive Harvest
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The third episode of a bestselling story which began with THE OLIVE FARM,… “The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras...

The Olive Season

The Olive Season
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“I scan the terraces, planted with row upon row of ancient olive trees. It is April, late spring. Here in the hills behind the Cote d’Azur the olive groves are delicately blossomed, with their tiny, white-forked flowers. Beyond them,...

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