- Location(s): Orvieto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
This is the same book as “An Umbrian Love Story: Coming home to Via del Duomo”. A couple in love and a barrle full of eccentric characters. It is a great story of integrating into rather conservative Italian life...
- Location(s): Romania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th century
Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu’s reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better prospects and...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Eve falls for the secretive, charming Dom, their whirlwind relationship leads them to purchase Les Genevriers, an abandoned house in a rural hamlet in the south of France. As the beautiful Provence summer turns to autumn, Eve finds...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Sean Egan, undercover cop and DI Tina Boyd are the main protagonists. Egan’s job is to infiltrate a top London gang and Boyd’s job is to bring a serial killer to justice.
- Location(s): Kent, South East England
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting...
- Location(s): Assisi
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
Rita has grown up in the States but decided to head for her relatives in Italy. Her body is found and a probe starts into the life of the Casati family.
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome
- Location(s): England, Russia
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
Arthur Ransome is best known for the twelve immortal ”Swallows and Amazons” books he wrote on his return from Russia in 1928. From his prose he appears a genial and gentle Englishman, who, like his protagonists, pursued benign maritime...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
A universal tale of escape, love and redemption. A Boston fireman, in an attempt to flee personal and professional tragedy, accepts a job as a bartender on a Greek island. In an isolated cove, he meets Kerryn, an animal...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
No, we’re not talking Bonnie Prince Charlie here. The title character of Giles Foden’s debut novel, The Last King of Scotland, is none other than Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda. Told from the viewpoint of Nicholas Garrigan,...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
An ageing misanthrope with a penchant for alcohol, seeking out work in the underbelly of Bristol – a bit of debt collecting and exposing errant spouses.
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