The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen
- 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...
- Location(s): Karachi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Scatter Here Is Too Great heralds a major new voice from Pakistan with a stunning debut – a novel told in a rich variety of distinctive voices that converge at a single horrific event: a bomb blast at a...
- Location(s): Bali, California, Western Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken… Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where...
- Location(s): Glossop, The Peak District
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s and Modern
1980. On a hot summer’s day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions...
- Location(s): Famagusta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1500s
1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home at Greenwich, London, to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides...
Trouble in Nuala. The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #1
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
TFBookClub choice for November/December 2017. More details here When Inspector Shanti de Silva moves with his English wife, Jane, to a new post in the sleepy hill town of Nuala, he anticipates a more restful life than police work...
- Location(s): Faro, Lisbon, The Algarve
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past where two...