- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2014
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Iraq, Jerusalem
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Mid 1930s
In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana–the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan...
- Location(s): London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A story of obsession, love and art set in Tuscany, Sri Lanka and London. Ras, a Sri Lankan who fled his country as a child following the violent death of his mother and his father’s disappearance, has committed a...
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to childhood
Beautiful. Rich. Mysterious. The Roanoke girls seem to have it all. But there’s a dark truth about them which is never spoken. Every girl either runs away, or dies. Lane is one of the lucky ones. When she was...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river – for centuries the only...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 2005 looking back 60 years
Set on the island of Mallorca, The Rocks is a double love story told in reverse. Opening in 2005 with a dramatic event that seems to seal the mystery of two lives, the story moves backwards in time, unravelling over sixty...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 19th Century
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1980s
The young Brahman Samar has come to the holy city of Benares to complete his education and take the civil service exam that will determine his future. But in this city redolent of timeworn customs, where pilgrims bathe in...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
A woman has been arrested on the streets of Rome. She’s young. She’s beautiful. She’s covered in blood. And she claims to be on the run from a mighty power that centuries ago brought the eternal city to its...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): WW2
A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off in his pyjamas, little Sylvia Satin...
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