- Location(s): Chennai (Madras), London
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Siân Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in...
- Location(s): Granada
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
Granada, 1920. Free-spirited Luisa and young poet Eduardo fall in love, cementing a bond that can never be broken. Behind the jasmine filled courtyard, perched amongst houses like clouds on a hilltop, stands a beautiful villa; Carmen de las Estrellas....
- Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s - 1980s
Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: “We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there? To move...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Schiele is the son of a railway inspector, he rejects his traditional upbringing and searches for artistic fulfilment. He is drawn to portray the louche social society of Veinna in the fin de siècle, but is rejected by the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
In the year of HRH The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee comes a fiercely controversial story that exposes evil at the heart of the British establishment. Three of the UK’s most powerful men will stop at nothing to protect the monarchy,...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
First with your head and then with your heart … So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, its a piece of advice...
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
- Location(s): Mongolia, Shanghai, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel’s sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The Prodigal is the first in a series of gritty crime novels set in the fictional housing estate of Valley Park in Newcastle upon Tyne. Exiled from his beloved Newcastle sixteen years ago, Detective Sergeant Lee Jamieson is returning...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
June in Provence is full of promise when Katherine arrives from Canada, eager to feel renewed by her surroundings. Endless rows of lavender prepare to burst into pink and purple blooms. Fields of sunflowers flow in golden waves among...
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