- Location(s): Ryazan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1867
It is 1867 and winter in Ryazan, a city on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia. Konstantin is ten years old. His days are full of dreams of flight – to Moscow, even to the silent...
- Location(s): England, Kent
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1793
It’s 1793, and England is on the brink of war with the French. In what seems almost a day-by-day account, we follow Kydd from his nightmarish introduction to naval life to his promotion to ordinary seaman. Befriended first by...
- Location(s): Central Asia, South East Asia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam’s ‘research’ soon...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Best-selling author Anita Shreve has chosen as her latest protagonist a 12-year-old girl, whose life has not just been touched by tragedy, but blown apart by it. Nicky and her father have moved to a remote house on the...
- Location(s): Westphalia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Everyone who knows her loves Lillian Veldeen Marshall. She is the small town matriarch of Westphalia, Michigan. Wife of over thirty years, mother of three, grandma and winner of pie contests, her titles go on and on. Lillian’s love...
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
The second instalment in this hilarious, romantic and unputdownable five-part series. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart… novels. Lily is an actress. At least, that’s what she tells people, even though she’s currently working in a call centre and...
- Location(s): Hove, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The central character Paul is a man on the edge: alcoholic and seller of worthless ads in uncirculated magazines. He commutes from his suburban life in Hove on the south coast into London, to his pedestrian world of work,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
Yes,this one man’s trip around the M25 – a walk in several stages, from Waltham Abbey to Shenley, Abbots Langley to Staines, Staines to Epsom and Epsom to Westerham before going on to Dartford, the river and Carfax and...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The time is 1967, just prior to the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, and the setting is Cairo. The characters are an ill-assorted bunch of British ex-pats whose complicated and extended relationships bring comic relief to a...
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