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The Spy of Venice

The Spy of Venice
  • Author(s): Benet Brandreth
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1580s

A historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist and a hero like you’ve never seen him before When he’s caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London,...

The Tattooist

The Tattooist
  • Author(s): Louise Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine a man who will be anything you want. Who will listen attentively to every word you say and intuit everything you don’t. A man willing to explore all the dark corners of your body and your mind. A...

The Tea Planter’s Wife

The Tea Planter’s Wife
  • Author(s): Dinah Jefferies
  • Location(s): Dickoya
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s/30s

Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husband. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in...

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
  • Author(s): Alexandre Dumas
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 17th Century

A historical romance, “The Three Musketeers” tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D’Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King’s Musketeers – Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye...

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club
  • Author(s): Richard Osman
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their...

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
  • Author(s): Anstey Harris
  • Location(s): Cremona, Kent, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David,...

The Various Flavours of Coffee

The Various Flavours of Coffee
  • Author(s): Anthony Capella
  • Location(s): Eritrea, Ethiopia, London, North Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee – and encounters Pinker’s free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms...

The Weightless World

The Weightless World
  • Author(s): Anthony Trevelyan
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

We live in an age when things that would once have seemed miraculous are starting to seem mundane – even if they still, sometimes, bring with them profound implications… In The Weightless World, Anthony Trevelyan – a new, supremely...

The White Masai

The White Masai
  • Author(s): Corinne Hofmann
  • Location(s): Kenya, Maasai Mara
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

At once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn and a fine piece of social anthropology, White Masai is a compulsive read. Whilst on holiday Corinne Hoffman fell in love with a Masai warrior. After overcoming all...

Tideline

Tideline
  • Author(s): Penny Hancock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home at Greenwich, London, to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides...

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