- 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...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It was supposed to be a quick trip to the grocery store, but it turned into an Unspeakable Journey. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Isabella is abducted in the parking lot of her local grocery store. Hasam,...
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