- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Augusta and Owen have taken the leap. Leaving the city and its troubling memories behind, they have moved to the country for a solitary life where they can devote their days to each other and their art, where Gus...
- Location(s): Italy, London, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
All she has left is hope. When Kaz Elmore is told her five-year-old daughter Jamie has died in a car crash, she struggles to accept that she’ll never see her little girl again. Then a stranger comes into her...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Raimund Gregorius is a Swiss middle-aged teacher of ancient languages in Bern. His routine id disturbed when he has a strange encounter with a Portuguese woman. He learns of the work of Amadeu Prado and is energised into travelling...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Early 1900s
A slow paced but luxurious read charting the investigation of the death of a young woman, Dora, in Fin de Siecle Vienna.
- Location(s): Italy, London, Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
THE VILLA GIRLS is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they’re doing they’ll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in...
- Location(s): Austrian Alps
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
As of forty-three minutes ago, I am a seasonaire, whatever that means.” When Poppy Connors swaps a life of suits and cappuccinos for a job as a ski rep, she soon finds that resort life on the side of...
A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and his Imperfect Human
- Location(s): Paris, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): Modern
A short book that tells the story of Norton, a Scottish Fold kitten that the writer’s girlfriend Cindy bought for him – but he isn’t a cat lover (at the outset). He becomes his adorable companion on his trips...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
In the wild highlands of southern China, a tribe of fisher folk must venture daily on to a fearsome river. Into their world of struggle and superstition arrives a young couple, John and Grace Gerrard. Raised among the teeming...
- Location(s): Barcelona, Dorset, Fuerteventura
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s to present
Spain, 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona. Looking for a way to maintain her links to the outside world, she volunteers to...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, Modern
Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing...
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