- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that...
- Location(s): Marrakech
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sidi is dying. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant, his faithful court fool takes stock of the decades he has spent in the king’s service. For the many years have left certain indelible wounds. During his service,...
- Location(s): Kraków (Kraków)
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1939
This work discusses hope, struggle and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. This is a compelling tale of love and courage in dangerous and desperate times. ‘Krakow, the City of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Kate Robinson leaves her Seattle home to travel across Ireland, she is looking to escape: fleeing a broken relationship, a failing career in fashion and the crushing grief over her mother’s death. Her strict itinerary keeps her busy,...
- Location(s): Mexico, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
Encapsulating, with luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification. The Ladies’Paradise depicts the growth of capitalism through the workings of a new economic entity, the department store. The novel centres around the...
- 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.










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