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Dan Knew

Dan Knew
  • Author(s): F J Curlew
  • Location(s): Tallinn, East Lothian, Kyiv, London, Parnu, Portugal, Scotland, Vilnius
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002 - 2016

A puppy born to the dangers of street life. A woman in trouble. An unbreakable bond. A Ukrainian street dog is rescued from certain death by an expat family. As he travels to new countries with them a darkness...

Bad Apples (The Beatrice Stubbs Series)

Bad Apples (The Beatrice Stubbs Series)
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

“Some people are just rotten to the core.” Acting DCI Beatrice Stubbs is representing Scotland Yard at a police conference in Portugal. Her task is to investigate a rumour – a ghostwritten exposé of European intelligence agencies – and...

A Sea of Straw

A Sea of Straw
  • Author(s): Julia Sutton
  • Location(s): Portugal, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the 1960s, the story of Jody, her little daughter Anna and Zé, veers between an unhappy marriage in the North of England and a journey to find love amid the vivid landscapes of Portugal, while exposing the...

Garden of Stars

Garden of Stars
  • Author(s): Rose Alexander
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s - present day

The Alentejo, Portugal 1934 I am Inês Bretão and I am 18 years old. Now that I am finally an adult and soon to be married, I feel like my real life is about to begin. I have decided...

Rising Tide

Rising Tide
  • Author(s): Susan Roebuck
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Time, and most of Portugal, has almost forgotten Luminosa, a small fishing community on the Alentejo coast. A cluster of white and blue cottages huddle under the cliffs overshadowed by the great manor of Herdade Albatroz whose family has...

Epiphany Jones

Epiphany Jones
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Cannes, Mexico, Oporto, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who...

300 Days of Sun

300 Days of Sun
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Faro, Lisbon, The Algarve
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past where two...

The High Mountains of Portugal

The High Mountains of Portugal
  • Author(s): Yann Martel
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Easy 1900s looking forward and back

In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that – if it exists – would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he...

No More Secrets

No More Secrets
  • Author(s): Tricia Maw
  • Location(s): Devon, Portugal
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Charlotte Pascoe returns to Devon to work with her father in the family boatyard, she is horrified to discover that he is about to sell the site to Raphael da Silva, a property developer. Unable to pursue her...

The House in Smyrna

The House in Smyrna
  • Author(s): Tatiana Salem Levy
  • Location(s): Brazil, Portugal, Smyrna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

In Rio de Janeiro, a woman suffering from a mysterious illness, which is eroding her body and mind, decides to accept a challenge from her grandfather: to take the key to the house where he grew up – in...

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