- Location(s): Paris, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1720-1930
This is the second in the Herries Chronicles. Set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole’s most delightful heroine. Daughter of Frances Herries...
- Location(s): Siena
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
A beautifully crafted novel, following a young woman who discovers that her family’s origins reach all the way back to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers – Romeo and Juliet. ‘Of all the great love stories ever told, hers is perhaps...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Parisians behaving badly: a dinner party implodes in this darkly compelling tale, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Day. In tired, hot Paris at the end of August, a group of friends, who’d rather still be at the sea, meet...
Just One Evil Act (Inspector Linley 18)
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern looking back
When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl’s father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her...
- Location(s): Montana
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Former Navy SEAL, and Personal Security Specialist Rhys Bennett is in Canyon Springs to mend after being shot on his last assignment. His wound has healed and it’s almost time for him to go back to work, but he’s...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1986
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
After a freak accident, Douglas’s twin brother is dead, and his family’s fragmentation begins. His mother packs up their home in Cape Town and takes him to a tiny backwater town in the semi-desert Karoo region, where she withdraws...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 18th Century
A woman with a past, a man determined to uncover the truth, and a secret that could tear them apart forever. A Grieving Husband: Amon Cayle needs a seamstress. He has spent the last year rebuilding his life after...
Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
- Location(s): England, Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Humour
- Era(s): 1900s-2000s
In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann’s parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family-a mother who might be drifting mentally: a grandfather-a retired cop-who rarely talks: a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former...
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