- Location(s): Lampedusa
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about human fellowship and the awakening of courage and conscience. ‘I can hardly begin to describe to you what I...
- Location(s): Seville
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present looking back
An unforgettable story of past love and family secrets, set in sunny Seville Holly loves making marmalade. Now she has a chance to leave her stressful city job and pursue her dream – of returning to the Dorset landscape...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
HENRY AND VIOLET FELL IN LOVE HERE. AND SO WILL YOU. Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Majorca. They promised their lives to each other, poured their love...
- Location(s): Poland, Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1944 - 1989
1945, the German-Polish border: With Nazis on one side and Soviet forces approaching on the other, a mother and her little boy are separated, and so begins an unforgettable tale of courage, heartbreak and motherhood in wartime. As snow...
The Other Side of the Mountain
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001
It’s 2001, and amidst the political turmoil in Haiti, three disparate lives collide: Yolande, an impoverished farmer desperately looking for the sister her abusive husband has sold into slavery; Maddy, an eager British journalist on her first overseas assignment,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Paris, 1920s. Tatiana Vytenis has worked hard to leave her past behind. Once a ruined Russian princess in hiding, she is now a sought-after model and engaged to Gérard de Sainte-Vierge – a handsome, if occasionally overbearing, aristocrat. With...
- Location(s): Paris, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII and 1993
Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people of...
- Location(s): Antibes, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Not every door should be opened . . . With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris Secret is an intense and gripping tale from bestselling author Karen Swan. Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In recent years, Naples has been the subject of countless books, films and TV series, making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality, if it exists at all. As Naples becomes the most filmed city in Italy, where...
The Pearl that Broke its Shell
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2007 looking back
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima...
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