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The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen
  • Author(s): Ada Bright, Cass Grafton
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

It’s September, and the beautiful city of Bath is playing host to the annual Jane Austen Festival, a celebration of the famous author and her works. Rose Wallace, Bath resident and avid Jane Austen fan, can’t wait for her...

Telling Sonny

Telling Sonny
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gauffreau
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1925-1945

An atmospheric historical novel set in small-town Vermont, where 19-year-old Faby lives with her close-knit French family, Maman Aurore, Papa, Mémère, and sister Josephine. The story traces an eventful year in Faby’s young life when she meets and marries...

Zahara and the Lost Books of Light

Zahara and the Lost Books of Light
  • Author(s): Joyce Yarrow
  • Location(s): Spain, Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval and Modern

When Seattle journalist Alienor Crespo travels to Granada to apply for citizenship as a descendant of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, she uncovers her own family story, along with a hidden treasure trove of medieval Hebrew and Arabic...

Alarm Girl

Alarm Girl
  • Author(s): Hannah Vincent
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in...

Blindsided

Blindsided
  • Author(s): Julian Edge
  • Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Sardinia: Beautiful landscapes, fascinating history and a unique blend of cultures. For Ralph and Clare, a working holiday also offers an opportunity to get their marriage back on track. Then a chance meeting with Tex and Cass provides new...

Go As A River

Go As A River
  • Author(s): Shelley Read
  • Location(s): Colorado, Gunnison County, Paonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s-70s

I’ve come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea. On a cool autumn morning, Victoria Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches....

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Author(s): Arthur Golden
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1929 onwards

Chiyo-chan is a nine year old girl from a small fishing village,who has experienced a simple life until her Mother becomes fatally ill. She is sent by her Father to Gion, one of the Geisha areas of districts of...

Nectar in a Sieve

Nectar in a Sieve
  • Author(s): Kamala Markandaya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction

‘Sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are...

Summertime

Summertime
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lafaye
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Florida, 1935. Heron Key is a small town where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp. Everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for...

The Abrupt Physics of Dying

The Abrupt Physics of Dying
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Yemen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious...

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