- Location(s): Egypt, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s
It’s 1932 and 27-year-old Jessica is living London life to the full when her younger brother Tim, an ancient Egyptian archaeology expert, goes missing. Teaming up with Sir Montague Chamford – who can resist neither a damsel in distress...
- Location(s): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Various
Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling....
- Location(s): The Gambia, West Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
West Africa in the early 1990s. Daniel Maddison arrives into the milieu of miscellaneous misfits and mavericks that is the ex-pat commmunity. Rebelling against the confines of diplomatic life, Daniel is drawn towards the people and places that lie...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1946
1946 and the book forms a series of letters, mainly to and from the central character, Juliet Ashton, who is a successful writer and who becomes involved with a group of people on Guernsey who have lived through the...
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work: mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate: made entirely by hand, it is sold...
- Location(s): London, Scarborough
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern, 1970s, WW2
In the northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. The investigation continues apace, yet they are still struggling to...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Era(s): 1930s
This novel is the #TFBookClub read May/June 2018 – join us on this link Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who...
- 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...
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