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The Sugar Planter’s Daughter

The Sugar Planter’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): Guyana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

1912, British Guiana, South America: Winnie Cox is about to marry George Quint, the love of her life. Born into a life of luxury and privilege on her father’s sugar plantation, Winnie has turned against her family by choosing to be...

The Suitors

The Suitors
  • Author(s): Cecile David-Weill
  • Location(s): Antibes, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise...

The Sultan’s Wife

The Sultan’s Wife
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): London, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1677

The year is 1677. Behind the magnificent walls and towering arches of the Palace of Meknes, captive chieftain’s son and now a lowly scribe, Nus Nus is framed for murder. As he attempts to evade punishment for the bloody...

The Summer House by the Sea

The Summer House by the Sea
  • Author(s): Jenny Oliver
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every Summer has its own story… For Ava Fisher, the backdrop to all her sun-drenched memories – from her first taste of chocolate-dipped churros to her very first kiss – is her grandmother’s Summerhouse in the sleepy Spanish seaside...

The Summer of Dead Toys

The Summer of Dead Toys
  • Author(s): Antonio Hill
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the death of a young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo provokes the normally calm Inspector Salgado to beat someone up, he is swiftly removed from the project. Instead, he is sent to investigate a...

The Summer of my Greek Taverna

The Summer of my Greek Taverna
  • Author(s): Tom Stone
  • Location(s): Patmos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream. Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel — and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle,...

The Summer of Secrets

The Summer of Secrets
  • Author(s): Alison Lucy
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s, Modern

One heady summer. Three big secrets. 1989: Newlyweds Danny and Harriet arrive at their honeymoon paradise in the Caribbean. Days later Harriet returns home. Danny is left distraught but finds comfort in the arms of two women. Nine months...

The Summer Trip

The Summer Trip
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if your life worked out perfectly . . . for someone else? It’s been 18 years since Ava spent the summer on the Greek island of Corfu, but she has never forgotten what happened during those months –...

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Pamplona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A masterpiece, post World war 1: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, who travel from the wild nightlife of Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain, in the company of a group of expatriates – moral dissolution, unrequited...

The Sun and Other Stars

The Sun and Other Stars
  • Author(s): Brigid Pasulka
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Etto finds himself adrift in his village on the Italian Riviera. He has recently lost his Brother and Mother and has a tense relationship with his Father, the local butcher. Football is molto grande amongst the inhabitants, but it...

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