- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1914
A stunning novel set in the Edwardian era about a seamstress working at Buckingham Palace. Full of drama, betrayal and addictive real-life detail – The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow is perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Joanne...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Historical
The story is set principally about the Americans attempting to dislodge a British incursion at Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts, Summer 1779. Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Dean Street, Brooklyn. When Abraham and Rachel Ebdus arrive there in the early 1970s, they are among the first whites to venture into a mainly black neighborhood that is just beginning to be called Boerum Hill.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 18th Century
Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. They were abandoned at birth outside the steps of the Ospedale della Pieta, Venice’s world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. Rebellious Chiaretta develops into a dazzling singer, soon becoming...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it’s time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her...
- Location(s): Exeter, Lyme Regis
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Mid 1800s
Sarah Woodruff is the woman of the title, the French Lieutenant’s Woman, also known as the “Tragedy”. She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French naval officer named Varguennes,...
- Location(s): The Cyclades
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island.One of us was a murderer . . .’ On a small private Greek island, former movie star Lana Farrar – an old friend – invites a select group...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The story follows Scottish would-be-vet, Doogie O’Mara as he takes up a position with a UK tour operator based on the island. Fiction as real life….
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Location(s): Ferrara
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1930s
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica...
- Location(s): Aegean Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One private island. Seven guests. One killer… The perfect holiday. The perfect murder. The perfect beach read… Get away from your problems. Multimillionaire Robert Rathwell and his entourage arrive at their private Greek island. White sand, turquoise water, the...










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