- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires for every young Chinese woman. For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In the enclosed...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 14th Century
Santa Maria del Mar is in the process of being built. This is the city of Barcelona, witnessing the building of a great cathedral. Arnau, son of the Estanyol family joins the guild of stone workers and helps build...
- Location(s): Central America, Costa Rica
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship’s comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life: for her family to produce the very first Irish pope. Fired up by John Paul II’s appearance in Phoenix Park, she sprinkles Papal-blessed holy water on the marital bed...
Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name
- Location(s): Lapland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn’t her father at all. Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New York...
- Location(s): Hindu Kush, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Border Policeman Ishmael Khan has spent his life in the stunning mountains of the Hindu Kush. His current mission is to find out what is happening to the foreign backpackers disappearing in the area. Raseem Hasni dreams of wealth,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the...
- Location(s): Flanders, Ypres
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence,...
- Location(s): London, The Home Counties
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one...
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