- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master’s severed finger and reunite...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Multiple Timelines - 1904 / 2017
A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea,...
The Office of Gardens and Ponds
- Location(s): Honshu, Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the Kusagawa river. Who now will carry the precious cargo of carp to the Imperial Palace and preserve the crucial...
- Location(s): London, Estonia, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just beginning to tire of the job when he is attacked in the street by a freakish looking knifeman. It’s clear...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A magical house. A momentous summer. It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, ‘Pandora’, is left to...
The One Day You Were My Husband
- Location(s): South Devon, Stockholm, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 2000s
FOUR HOURS AFTER SAYING ‘I DO,’ HE WAS GONE . . . Twelve years ago, Carrie married Johan on a beach in Thailand. But as the sun set on their perfect day, armed men swarmed the island and her...
- 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...
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