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Other People’s Secrets

Other People’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Lake Orta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Ginny and Adam Trustlove arrive on holiday in Italy torn apart by personal tragedy. Two weeks in a boathouse on the edge of peaceful Lake Orta is exactly what they need to restore their faith in life – and...

Our Sister Killjoy

Our Sister Killjoy
  • Author(s): Ama Ata Aidoo
  • Location(s): England, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Out of Africa with her degree and her all seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to makes sense of it all. What is she doing...

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, Spinalonga
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Selena Harper always thought she had the perfect job: working on a luxury cruiseship, she’s whisked around the world from Alaska to Zanzibar with excitement and adventure awaiting her in every port. But as she prepares for her latest...

Out of Time

Out of Time
  • Author(s): Martin Blake
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Researcher Rosemary Torrance gets an unwelcome surprise when she encounters a long-lost manuscript which has turned up in the University Library in the most mysterious of circumstances. Through the ancient lanes and courtyards of Cambridge, Rosemary’s life is invaded...

Painting Time

Painting Time
  • Author(s): Maylis de Kerangal, Jessica Moore (translator)
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 2007

In 2007, Paula Karst begins her studies at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. There she meets two friends, both enigmatic, resourceful, impulsive, and gifted. Together, the three weave a complex relationship that mirrors the interconnectedness of their...

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Elly Grant
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees gives you an insight into the workings and atmosphere of small town France against a background of gender, sexual, racial and religious prejudice. The story unfolds, told by Danielle a single, downtrodden , thirty...

Palms of Persuasion

Palms of Persuasion
  • Author(s): R S Charles
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the aftermath of the raging storm, the intriguing community on the remote Caribbean island desperately struggles to regain some kind of normality. But what is ‘normal’ in paradise? Tragedy has dared to encroach, tarnishing the glamour of the...

Pantheon

Pantheon
  • Author(s): Sam Bourne
  • Location(s): New Haven, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set in 1940, James Zennor is an Oxford don who was wounded in the Spanish Civil War, and is in no fit state to fight the Nazis. His wife and son vanish and he eventually finds leads that take...

Parfums

Parfums
  • Author(s): Philippe Claudel
  • Location(s): Lorraine
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father’s aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir....

Paris For One

Paris For One
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She’s never even been on a romantic weekend away – to anywhere – before. Travelling abroad isn’t really her thing. But when Nell’s boyfriend fails to show up, she has...

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