- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Follow the creation in NYC of the scent ‘Lovely’ for Sarah Jessica Parker. And in Paris follow how Hermes sets about creating ‘Un Jardin sur le Nil’ – facts about (170,000 bottles of fragrance are sold in France every...
- Location(s): Valletta
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1800s
This book takes up where Gaston Leroux left “The Phantom of the Opera”. In Paris is alive after the fire, and turns his eye on the Opera House in Valletta, run down and in need of TLC. Together with...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Lazaro family are carpenters who would rather be piano-makers. In the dusty back room of their carpentry shop in Lisbon is the ‘piano cemetery’, filled with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing and rebuilding...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Destination Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lawyer Thea has just won the biggest case of her professional life when she receives a mysterious invitation – and finds herself on a jet, being whisked off to a private Caribbean island. Except this is no holiday. Thea’s...
- Location(s): Barnes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the heart of South West London, just a short stroll from the Thames, lies an enclosed and overgrown bike path and a single row of cottages. Foremost among Tinderbox Lane’s hotchpotch of loyal residents is professional Tarot reader,...
- Location(s): North America
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘I will never forget her eyes in that moment – I couldn’t look away from them. But I knew what happened as soon as I heard it. ‘I think she pushed him,’ I said to you quietly. ‘I think...
- Location(s): Öland (Oland)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
As the last snow melts on the Swedish island of Öland, Per Morner is preparing for his children’s Easter visit. But his plans are disrupted when he receives a phone call from his estranged father, Jerry, begging for help....
- Location(s): Jerusalem, London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
The book starts with the early life of the writer growing up in an Orthodox household , her rebellion against her parents, and her subsequent enlightenment when she embraces her faith by marrying her husband, also from the Orthodox...
- Location(s): Hay-on-Wye
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
After his mother’s death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children,...
The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
- Location(s): Germany, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When...










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