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- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
The novel begins in 1942, when nine-year-old Lark and her newly separated mother and aunt Betty travel by train from southern Minnesota to San Diego. Eager to obtain war work and as much distance as possible from her estranged...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Set in San Pedro, a southern district of Los Angeles and one of the world’s busiest ports. Dinko Babich and Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from a local topless bar start building up a relationship, a life together fraught...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Celebs, sunshine and beautiful boys…enough to lead a girl astray? Angela Clark can’t believe her luck… she’s an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine The Look and a sexy boyfriend. Her latest...
- Location(s): Coronado Island, La Jolla
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2011 /1986
Now: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in a small seaside Californian town with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting a writer to knock on her door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the...
Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965
One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...
- Location(s): La Jolla, Southern California
- Genre(s): Horror, Fiction, Gothic
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1970s looking back a century
Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his...
- Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s / 2000s
One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...
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