- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At the first wedding, there‘s a shock The second wedding is unexpected By the third, Delphie thinks nothing could surprise her. But she’s wrong . . . Delphie is enjoying her brother’s wedding. Her surprise last-minute Plus One has...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s, 80s
A stunning, deeply moving novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in Tiananmen Square protests It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Various
When a flock of herons wheeled overhead at the moment of Devi’s birth, it seemed that her life would be touched by fate… As a child, Devi befriends a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Over...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Late 20th Century, Late 1800s
Si Morley is bored with his job as a commercial illustrator and his social life doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. So, when he is approached by an affable ex-football star and told that he is just what the...
- Location(s): Cornwall, St Ives
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Faced with the apparent wreck of her life – two deaths which haunt her, a failing marriage and a soulless job – Rose Little flees London for Penmaris, a quiet Cornish cottage where she plans to paint and consider...
- Location(s): Oxford, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1500s
By about the 80th page, you begin to wonder whether this isn’t the biographical equivalent of Where’s Wally? For amid the cast of characters fleshing out the first four chapters of Sheila Hale’s weighty, reverential account of the life...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas, Tibet
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is about the trip from Nepal into Tibet – Thurbon has his usual eye for the wonderful detail and insight. His tales of seekers, refugees and mystics richly populate Tibetan history and Buddhist belief.
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 13th Century
The privileged daughter of one of the most powerful men in England, Mahelt Marshal’s life changes dramatically when her father is suspected of treachery by King John. Her brothers become hostages and Mahelt is married to Hugh Bigod, heir...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics. The story begins with a double-murder. A local pharmacist get a death threat in the mail, cut and pasted from a newspaper. Murder...
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