- Location(s): Putney
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ben Harper’s life changed forever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. It was a crime that shocked the nation and catapulted Ben’s family and their idyllic hometown, Haddley, into the spotlight. Twenty years on,...
- Location(s): Forks, La Push, Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As a teenager, Lucy McBride, is roused from her slumber by the sound of rich, haunting classical music coming from the stereo. It is a life changing moment and from that point she devotes herself to the study of...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century onwards
Amsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Fleeing Iraq to avoid conscription into Saddam Hussein’s army, he has spent seven years anonymously wandering through Asia....
Two Dark Tales: Jack Squat and The Niche
- Location(s): Lazio, England
- Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A pair of disturbing novellas from the master of the literary uncanny There are four ways in but no way out… In Jack Squat , unemployed Gordon and his partner Omar see a money-making opportunity helping expats buy homes...
Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalucia
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1961
Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. Together the travellers brought out the best in their Spanish hosts and Chetwode’s compelling account –...
- Location(s): Dubrovnik
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
“Two Tickets to Dubrovnik is a novella centered on the bittersweet memories of an Australian wine writer’s visit to Croatia. Tightly written, the book is filled with information about the area’s history and could even work as something of...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand inhabitants. For Billy Street, fourteen,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Jake is mid 30s, a specialist translator of French to English. He relies on his social group for upkeep a lot of the time, the romantic’s life of poverty. Life always seems to work out in the end and...
- Location(s): Cuernavaca
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1938
Geoffrey Firmin, the former British consul iun Mexico is a prisoner of alcoholism. On The Day of the Dead in 1938, his recently divorced wife Yvonne returns to Quauhnahuac (The Aztec name for Cuernavaca), over which two smoking volcanoes...
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