- Location(s): Auvers
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
This is the story of Van Gogh in the last couple of months of his life, which he spent in Auvers, under the treatment of Dr Gachet, physician with questionable ethics. Marguerite is his daughter, who is inexorably drawn...
- Location(s): New Forest
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two women. A dying wish. And a web of lies that will bring their world crashing down. Nina and Marie were best friends-until Nina was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before she died, Nina asked Marie to fulfill her...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Having been convinced by their manager, Kane Major, to put their acrimonious break-up behind them and launch a comeback, New Holland, Hull’s most successful band of the 1990s, is reforming. Allowing one privileged journalist to document the process. Joe...
- Location(s): Athens
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
This is the same book as Deadline in Athens. Costas Haritos, a CID chief in central Athens, is uncomfortably married, aggressive and pessimistic, and only manages to relax when he is at home reading his English dictionaries. A veteran...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
The Lieutenant is the second book in a trilogy of novels by Kate Grenville about early Australia – the others are The Secret River (1) and Sarah Thornhill (3) Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sails into Sydney Cove with the First...
- Location(s): Prague, Europe, Kraków (Kraków), London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
Do you want to live forever? is THE question facing anyone pursuing immortality. But what happens when eternal life is disappointing, and everyone around you keeps dying? Ben Ferguson-Cripps, a struggling writer with a surname that gets more attention...
- Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s, WW2
This novel is the same book as The Lavender Garden The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
When Julia undertook to find her cousin, Colin Munro, last heard of sailing a yacht off the north coast of Africa, the quest seemed lighthearted enough. But, before she had finished, she was involved with Moorish antique dealers, a...
- Location(s): Germany, The Rhine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel,...
- Location(s): Bruny Island, Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mary lives in Hobart, and is triggered into going to Bruny Island, where she once lived with her husband, the lighthouse keeper there. Her decision, in her dying days, prompts division within her own family, yet her trip has...










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