Emerald City and other Stories
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
These eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their...
Epic Annette: A Heroine’s Tale
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 20th Century
Could you put your beliefs before your family? Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the...
- Location(s): Christchurch, Cornwall, Oslo, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern, Pre-History, 18th century
A RETURN TO THE CURRENCY OF KINDNESS The story-within-a-story continues and a sequence of stunning revelations unfolds in Epiphany’s gripping conclusion. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis is looming, a time of losses for some in Rosetta’s circle, and the...
Escape Down Under: Playing for Love (Summer Beach Vets 1)
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Escape Down Under…and find love in Summer Beach, where cold noses touch warm hearts! Sara needs to escape – and an idyllic seaside town on the other side of the world seems like the perfect place. She’d always wanted...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
On a remote estate in New South Wales a man named Holland promises his daughter Ellen’s hand in marriage to whomever can correctly name the hundreds of species of eucalyptus tree that he has planted on his land. Ellen...
- Location(s): Italy, London, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
WELCOME TO LA DOLCE VITA OF 1950s ROME Vivien Lowry’s latest play has opened to a rapturous reception from audiences in London’s West End. However, the critics’ savage reviews soon call into question her entire career. So, when the...
- Location(s): Koh Samui
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2005
It is January 2005 and the charred remains of two Europeans have been discovered on the Thai island of Samui. Local Police Chief Charoenkul, sidelined by his superiors, enlists the reluctant David Braddock, a burnt-out private detective, to assist...
- Location(s): Corfu
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When the going gets tough Freya Johnson gets going! Humiliated by her boyfriend the day she turns thirty, Freya boards a last minute flight to Corfu to visit her best friend Emma. Little does she know – this holiday...
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
- Location(s): Italy, World
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): Various, Modern
The best Italian extra-virgins are made by authentic artist-craftsmen, who combine traditional farm wisdom and cutting-edge extraction technology to produce the finest oils in history. Despite the unprecedented quality and popularity of their oils, however, top Italian producers are...
- Location(s): Ystad
- Genre(s): Crime
“Everyman” Kurt Wallander has to deal with the double murder of an elderly farmer and his wife in a brutal manner which apparently lacks motive. Subsequent investigation the detective, on a trail which brings him face to face with...










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