Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What makes a real salade niçoise? What type of cheese is officially France’s stinkiest? Why does the sandy carrot have such a superior flavour? And who exactly are the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Giant Omelette? Leading expert...
- Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1943 WW2
France, 1943. Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French Alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
London, 1756: In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in the back streets of London, to conjuror’s assistant, to celebrated courtesan...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
Walking through Montmartre that morning was like the eerie calm right before a storm. The roads were deserted. We carried on, arm in arm, and then finally, we saw them. Columns and columns of soldiers, spreading through the streets...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1890s
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY. The winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014, this is a gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris – Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland and The Ghost. Paris, 1895: an army officer,...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Post 1947
In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent,...
- Location(s): Catskill Mountains
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting away It’s winter in the Catskills and Mitchell’s Inn, nestled deep in...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
September 1960. In the Spandauer forest Detectives Max Becker and Bastian Döhl, from the Berlin Kriminalpolizei, find a naked, tortured man tied to a tree. A cryptic message hangs from his neck. When another body appears, Max is sure...
Anna’s Dance: A Balkan Odyssey
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Balkans
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1968
It’s 1968. The world is in turmoil. So is twenty-thee-year-old Anna Rossi, who questions everything about her life, from her mostly Jewish heritage to her fear of intimacy. Summer in Europe with a childhood friend offers a perfect way...
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