- Location(s): Croatia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Fictional Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs...
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Fiction
After her soldier husband is seriously injured and her marriage begins to fall apart, Meredith Cordingley returns to teach at Letchford, the grand Cotswold private school run by her father, who outwardly appears to be a typically English headmaster....
- Location(s): Corfu
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Torn between struggling to live up to the expectations of being a Modern Woman and ridding herself of the effect of a repressed upbringing, Izzy Jordan would be the first to admit that it’s time to take stock of...
- Location(s): Cardiganshire, London
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Four of them went to the hotel Four students travel to Ravencliffe, an eerie abandoned hotel perched on steep cliffs on the Welsh coast. After a series of unexplained accidents, only three of them leave. The fourth, Leo, disappears,...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Imagine a sunny sea-lapped cove, gift wrapped in blue and tied with a bow like a Tiffany Box, and you’ll get the feel of my little hotel. It’s a place made for Romance with a capital R. Except for...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Abigail is having a great time relaxing on a hot and steamy tropical island in Thailand. She tries to stay faithful to her boyfriend back in England, but it isn’t easy when a variety of attractive, fun-loving young people...
- Location(s): Dartmoor
- Genre(s): Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast “with blazing eyes and dripping jaws” which...
- Location(s): Colorado, Littleton
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Caelum Quirk is a middle-aged schoolteacher. Students at Columbine High School generally respect him and turn to his wife Maureen, the school nurse, when in trouble. When he has to return to his home town for the funeral of...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century looking back
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Federí, the...










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