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The Rose Garden

The Rose Garden
  • Author(s): Marita Conlon-McKenna
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Molly’s perfect life comes crashing down following the unexpected death of her husband David. She is left alone with a big old house to maintain, finances in disarray and her hopes for happiness in a heap. But Molly is...

The Rose of Florence

The Rose of Florence
  • Author(s): Angela M Sims
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Renaissance, 1478

1478: Gianetta and Matteo have a happy life, working in service to the wealthy Rosini family. They are used to entertaining rich and powerful members of Florentine society in Palazzo Rosini, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici and Botticelli...

The Round House

The Round House
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone – including...

The Ruin

The Ruin
  • Author(s): Dervla McTiernan
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1993 / 2013

February 1993  On his first week on the job, Garda Cormac Reilly responds to a call at a decrepit country house to find two silent, neglected children waiting for him – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lies...

The Ruins of Us

The Ruins of Us
  • Author(s): Keija Parssinen
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rosalie IS an American woman married to a Saudi man, Abdullah. She discovers that her husband has taken a second wife. Written from the perspectives of several of the characters, this is the story of an american wife living...

The Runaway Year

The Runaway Year
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Dumped by her hotshot boyfriend and boss, Layla Lewis quits her job and heads to Trecastle in North Cornwall to house-sit for a friend-of-a-friend. Trecastle isn’t new to her; it’s a place where she holidayed regularly with her now-estranged...

The Sacred River

The Sacred River
  • Author(s): Wendy Wallace
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Harriet Heron’s life is almost over before it has even begun. At just twenty-three years of age, she is an invalid, over-protected and reclusive. Before it is too late, she must escape the fog of Victorian London for a...

The Safekeep

The Safekeep
  • Author(s): Yael van der Wouden
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): WWII and 1961

It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother’s country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But...

The Saffron Kitchen

The Saffron Kitchen
  • Author(s): Yasmin Crowther
  • Location(s): Iran, London, Mazareh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1900s onwards

come. Richmond Hill in London is a far cry from where Maryam Mazar was born and raised, the little village of Mazareh in Iran, but this affluent suburb is where she has lived for more than forty years. She...

The Saffron Trail

The Saffron Trail
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Marrakech, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Once, there was a girl who loved saffron. She loved its secrets, its mystery, and best of all, she loved its hint of magic. After the death of her beloved mother, Nell travels from rural Cornwall to the colour...

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