- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Evie, mid 30s finds herself in a bit of a rut. Her sisters have got themselves ‘well sorted’ lives. Aunt Jo is killed in a traffic accident and has left her cafe in Cornwall to Evie and she takes...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
After years of estrangement, Canning Albury, a revered and irreverent singer-songwriter, returns home to celebrate his father’s eightieth birthday. His welcome is mixed, at best. But Canning has made the trip for more than just a glass of Pol...
- Location(s): Isle of Wight, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
I haven’t given up on you and I’m not going to. It’s time to stop playing hard to get now. When Kate meets a dark, enigmatic man in a Soho bar, she doesn’t hesitate long before going home with...
- Location(s): Hertfordshire
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child of the widely admired Liberal MP Ralph Gethin. Four...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals,...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as...
- Location(s): Port Moresby
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When Roberta “Bertie” Lightfoot is struck down with polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn’t tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother’s daughter – until she sets her heart on becoming an artist. Through drawing, the...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Five people in a sleepy English coastal town. One year that changes everything. They seem to have it all. They’re in good health and are financially secure. They live in a pleasant and comfortable town. But as their lives...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1930s
Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés: marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers: dangerous, with its vice and intrigue: powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires-this is the period when Hitler was beginning...
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