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The Love of Singular Men

The Love of Singular Men
  • Author(s): Victor Heringer, James Young (Translator)
  • Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Novella, Disability, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1970s

Camilo is a middle-class boy growing up in the sweltering suburbs of 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during Brazil’s often brutal military dictatorship. Disabled by monoparesis, he lives a sheltered life under the blistering sun, rarely venturing beyond his own...

The Lovers’ Room

The Lovers’ Room
  • Author(s): Steven Carroll
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second Word War

The lovers room would always be theirs, and they would take it with them wherever they went. As the Allied forces occupy Japan at the end of World War II, an intense love affair develops between Australian Allen Spin...

The Luberon Garden

The Luberon Garden
  • Author(s): Alex Dingwall-Main
  • Location(s): The Luberon
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Alex Dingwall-Main left London with his wife and dog nine years ago for the Luberon region of the South of France. A landscape gardener of international renown he was in search of a challenge – a new climate, a...

The Luckiest Woman Ever (Molly Sutton 2)

The Luckiest Woman Ever (Molly Sutton 2)
  • Author(s): Nell Goddin
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Another pastry, another dead body…. Things have started to look up for Molly Sutton. Her new life in the French village of Castillac isn’t as peaceful as she expected it to be, but maybe that could be a good...

The Machine Murders

The Machine Murders
  • Author(s): C J Abazis
  • Location(s): Mykonos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of murders in the party island of Mykonos rocks the Web. A data scientist has less than a week to become a cop. Manos Manu arrives on the Greek island of Mykonos to attend a friend’s luxurious...

The Malady in Madeira

The Malady in Madeira
  • Author(s): Ann Bridge
  • Location(s): Madeira
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

The last thing recently widowed Julia Probyn expects to find on the lush and charming island of Madeira is a clue to her husband’s mysterious death, for Colonel Jamieson perished somewhere in the wilds of Central Asia while on...

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  • Author(s): Oscar Hijuelos
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1940s onwards

It’s 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls...

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
  • Author(s): Sloan Wilson
  • Location(s): Westport
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

This is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with three children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Universally acclaimed when it...

The Man in the Seventh Row

The Man in the Seventh Row
  • Author(s): Brian Pendreigh
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...

The Map of Lost Memories

The Map of Lost Memories
  • Author(s): Kim Fay
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator (and, unofficially, a treasure hunter) is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of Cambodia’s ancient Khmer civilisation. Her mentor has sent her to China to enlist...

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