- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to the dump, is the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine and his ten brothers grew up in the aimless chaos of drugs, violence, unemployment, and despair. The barefoot boys started their own...
- Location(s): Almería (Almeria)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power – from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home Two women arrive in a village...
- Location(s): County Kerry
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
When Megan O’Farrell inherits her uncle’s house in a remote part of the windswept Atlantic coast of Ireland, she imagines it will be a romantic hideaway where she can recover from her recent divorce. But the house is a...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Kati Hirschel is the proud owner of Istanbul’s only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring and old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room, Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
The true scents of Provence? Lavender, thyme and septic tank. There are hundreds of interesting things you can do in a bath but washing dishes is not one of them, nor what writer Jean Gill had in mind when...
- Location(s): London, Carlisle
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century
From Frazzles to Foie Gras: a memoir of wanting more. From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better. Hungry traces...
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter: Dearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Celebs, sunshine and beautiful boys…enough to lead a girl astray? Angela Clark can’t believe her luck… she’s an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine The Look and a sexy boyfriend. Her latest...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 2000s
It’s official. Angela Clarke is in love – with the most fabulous city in the world. Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Angela is in the city of love – but romance is taking a nose-dive… When Angela Clark’s boyfriend Alex suggests a trip to Paris at the same time as hip fashion mag Belle asks her to write a piece,...
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