- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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