- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Early 1900s
In Freud’s dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past. On opposite sides of...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Vietnam is a rising economy in Asia, capitalism is finding root in a country that still sees itself as Communist. Vibrant cities sit alongside poverty in the country. This book explores what lies beneath, how family values still hold...
- Location(s): Antibes
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos – all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and...
- Location(s): Rhodes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2, contemporary
Rebecca Neumanner’s marriage is on the brink of collapse, as her desire to be a mother becomes an obsession. Then she receives news from her estranged family in Rhodes. Called back to the beautiful Greek island of her birth,...
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As Ute and her husband Jerry travel to a remote area on the west coast of South America, they decide to visit a recently established eco retreat called Villa Pacifica. The resort, run by a group of eccentric expatriates,...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded...
- Location(s): England, Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
Sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, and written by the bestselling Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover. John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Gothic, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1938 and 1997
A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Kate Mosse. 1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the menacing shadow of her controlling older brother, Aubrey. But when she meets local artist Dodie Blakeney, the two women...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Marshal Guarnaccia is called upon to investigate the murder of a young woman he is convinced that there’s more to the family than meets the eye, and wonders if the girl’s father, Paoletti, might have had something to...
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