- Location(s): Birmingham, Moseley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
How far would you go to win the love of a woman? Arch, a wannabe poet living in a bohemian Birmingham suburb, likes to party and has no time for love or seriousness. Then he meets the mysterious Vee....
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Summer Book is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six year old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland,...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai’i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Essex, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s- turn of the 21st Century
1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly’s world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
With her thirtieth birthday on the horizon and her safe and comfortable life in Sydney outside her front door, Penelope Green decided it was now or never. Undaunted by the fact she spoke absolutely no Italian, had no job,...
- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Inspector Singh is back, but this time working out of Bali. A bomb has exploded and Singh has been sent to help with anti-terrorism efforts. But there’s a slight problem: he knows zero about hunting terrorists. He’s much better...
- Location(s): London, Gibraltar, Witney
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
I used to believe the world had been created for me; every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge. 1939, London: From McPhail’s Passage...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city, Florence, hides dark undercurrents. When called in to investigate a series of brutal and apparently random murders, his intuition is confirmed. Distrusted by his superiors and...
- Location(s): Baltimore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th/21st Century
This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer’s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
There’s no doubt that she’s ardent, intense: sometimes fiery. Marlena De Blasi is a passionate woman. Make that passionate with a capital P. A chef, she has a passion for food. Married to Fernando, a Venetian with “blueberry eyes,...










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