- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
An idealistic young Englishman, Harry Summerfield, befriends an American oil explorer in Gibraltar in the 1930s. Their meeting sparks a journey for both men that will take them across Morocco and northern Africa, to encounter the harsh realities of...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of an unchained, coast to coast road trip in a classic 1970’s Ford
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1920s onward
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, New York heiress Zoe Gifford longs for the freedoms promised by the Jazz Age. Headstrong and brazen, but bound by her father’s will to marry before she can access his fortune, Zoe...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
An inspirational novel of the real-life engineer whose ambitious project to build an electrical grid in Catalonia changed Barcelona forever Xavier Moret illuminates the story of the American engineer Frederick Stark Pearson, an entrepreneur with a global vision, whose...
An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Various
During several months of treatment for a serious illness, the writer decides to turn a necessary evil into an opportunity: the luxury of reading whatever takes her fancy. An Everywhere: a little book about reading is a quietly passionate...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sunshine, warmth, lemon blossom . . . Springtime in glorious Southern Italy can go to your head. Especially if you are escaping an overbearing husband, the embarrassingly public loss of your company, an interfering mother who still tries to...
- Location(s): Caribbean, Hertfordshire, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19502
It’s 1954 and, in Barbados, Ruby Haynes spots an advertisement for young women to train as nurses for the new National Health Service in Great Britain. Her sister, Connie, takes some persuading, but soon the sisters are on their...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it would have seemed unbelievable that the bond between them – first forged by their fathers, and later sealed...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern, past
Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband’s career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Casey’s relaxing Caribbean jazz cruise is interrupted when “The Countess” goes missing and the captain asks her to investigate … quietly. All Casey wanted was to enjoy the music, sit on the deck reading novels and possibly pursue her...
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