- 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...
The Making of Swallows and Amazons
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1973 - 2020
In 1973, Sophie Neville was cast as Titty alongside Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser and Suzanna Hamilton in the 1974 film ‘Swallows & Amazons.’ Made before the advent of digital technology, the child stars lived out Arthur Ransome’s epic adventure...
- Location(s): London, Norfolk
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard...
- Location(s): Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
An original, intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire. A dead body in a crop circle sends a coded message. Can DI Silas Hart uncover the chilling truth before it’s too late? It isn’t unusual for crop circles...
- Location(s): Hamina, Finland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he’s dying. What is more, the cause is discovered...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
- Era(s): Various
We all carry other people inside our heads – actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 15th century
In this tale of mystery and the supernatural, Laura Rahme evokes a Venice long forgotten. From the dark sottoporticos of the Arsenal, to the wealthy mansions of Castello, and deep within the secret passages of the Ducal Palace, The...










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