- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Away from the hotels and holiday lets, there is an unseen side of Cornwall, where the shifting uncertainties of the future breed resentment and mistrust. Melody Janie is hidden. She lives alone in a caravan in Bones Break: a...
The Little Book of Sanuk: The Thai Secret to a More Joyful Life
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
We all need a little more sanuk in our lives Sanuk is a Thai concept that can loosely be translated as meaning ‘fun’. Though sanuk is in fact much more than that; it’s about achieving pleasure and joy in...
- Location(s): Mozambique
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island’s first literary festival. But as soon as the first festival guests arrive, the coast is...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1950s
The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets . . . A stunning 1950s set debut mystery brimming with atmosphere and perfect for fans of Tangerine, Small Pleasures and Mad Men. Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
A tragic love story about two sisters who cannot live with or without each other. Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits....
- Location(s): The North East (England), Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘He was her child. The only one she’d ever have. It would kill her to learn that he was missing.’ Alex arrives home from holiday to find that her ten-year-old son Daniel has disappeared. It’s the first case together...
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
- Era(s): 20th Century
This is in part a biography of the life and quests of Percy Harrison Fawcett and what became his obsession of finding the Lost City of El Dorado, a man who hasn’t survived the rigours of history, but int he...
- Location(s): Paris, Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Since her daughter went missing four years earlier, celebrated photographer Kurtiz Ross has been a woman alone. Her only companion her camera. Since Lizzie disappeared, she has blamed and isolated herself, given up hope. Until, out of the blue,...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
As the fall of Saigon begins in 1975, two lovers make their way through the streets, desperately trying to catch one of the last planes out. Helen Adams, a photojournalist, must leave behind a war she has become addicted...
- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s - WW2 - 1950s
1923 Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet for her dowry trunk. Her father has gone to find her a husband. He’s taken his mule, a photograph and a pack of food: home-made sopressa sausage, cold polenta, a little flask...
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