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The Space Between Things

The Space Between Things
  • Author(s): Charlie Hill
  • 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....

The Summer Book

The Summer Book
  • Author(s): Tove Jansson
  • 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,...

This is Paradise

This is Paradise
  • Author(s): Kristiana Kahakauwila
  • 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...

When God was a Rabbit

When God was a Rabbit
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • 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...

When in Rome

When in Rome
  • Author(s): Penelope Green
  • 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,...

A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul

A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul
  • Author(s): Shamini Flint
  • 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...

A Complicated Matter

A Complicated Matter
  • Author(s): Anne Youngson
  • 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...

A Florentine Death

A Florentine Death
  • Author(s): Michele Giuttari
  • 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...

A Spool of Blue Thread

A Spool of Blue Thread
  • Author(s): Anne Tyler
  • 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...

A Thousand Days in Tuscany

A Thousand Days in Tuscany
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • 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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