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Turf Wars

Turf Wars
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

The summary execution of three dealers – one murdered in full view of a police surveillance team – is the signal for hell to be unleashed in France’s most notorious suburb. Now there’s a new kingpin in charge, using...

Turning: A Swimming Memoir

Turning: A Swimming Memoir
  • Author(s): Jessica J Lee
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my...

Two Old Fools – Olé!

Two Old Fools – Olé!
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Almería (Almeria), Andalusia (Andalucía), Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

Book #2 in the Old Fools series by New York Times bestselling author. Never believe that life in a tiny Spanish mountain village is predictable. Vicky and Joe have finished fixing up their house and look forward to peaceful...

Two Weeks in Toronto

Two Weeks in Toronto
  • Author(s): Amelia Doyle
  • Location(s): Toronto, Dublin
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ciara Walsh is dreading the thought of boarding the plane from Dublin to Toronto alone to attend her sister Gabriella’s wedding. Also, successful dentist Ethan O’Leary could imagine better things to do than driving to Galway to celebrate both...

Under The Golden Sun

Under The Golden Sun
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia. All expenses as well as passage covered. Interested parties to apply without delay to 32 Williams Street, Belgravia. London, 1941. There are so many reasons Rose Hamilton she...

Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta

Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta
  • Author(s): Sally Jane Smith
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1978

When Sally sets out for Europe with her mother’s 1978 travel diary in her pocket, she is searching for the wanderlust she lost in a devastating overseas road accident. As she ventures into the heart of the Mediterranean –...

Vengeance in Venice

Vengeance in Venice
  • Author(s): Philip Gwynne Jones
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Murder is the deadliest art . . . An invitation to an exclusive event during the Venetian Biennale gives Honorary Consul Nathan Sutherland the perfect chance to drink prosecco in the sunshine and meet some of the greats of...

Venice

Venice
  • Author(s): Cees Nooteboom
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Literary Travel
  • Era(s): From 1960s onwards

With this treasury of his time spent in Venice over a period of fifty-five years, Nooteboom makes himself the indispensable companion for all lovers of “the sailing, amphibious city”, and for every new visitor. Because he is a master...

Venice Deserted

Venice Deserted
  • Author(s): Luc Carton, Danielle Carton
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Photography
  • Era(s): Spring 2020

Venice Deserted is an exceptional photographic report of the most beautiful city in the world under the exceptional circumstances of the Coronavirus lockdown in Spring 2020. During the Coronavirus lockdown in March, April and May 2020, Venice appeared completely...

Venice for Pleasure

Venice for Pleasure
  • Author(s): J G Links
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate…Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding...

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