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Descent

Descent
  • Author(s): Tom Dawn
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, Mexico, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A diver loses it all … his buddy, his job, his confidence and even his moral compass. Seeking escape, he falls into a world of unreality and his descent continues, until the only way out is forwards “Returning were...

A Vineyard in Andalusia

A Vineyard in Andalusia
  • Author(s): María Dueñas
  • Location(s): Jerez, Cuba (Republic of), Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

1861. A ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from Mexico City to seek his fortune in the New World. Mauro Larrera has just four months to pay his creditors, or his bankruptcy will be revealed and his family’s honour will...

Home Cook: Over 300 delicious fuss-free recipes

Home Cook: Over 300 delicious fuss-free recipes
  • Author(s): Thomasina Miers
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2017

‘To me, home cooking means having fun with great ingredients without having to spend a fortune. It means spending some time, but not all the time, cooking nourishing flavoursome food. This book includes all my kitchen essentials and they...

The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and...

On Starlit Seas

On Starlit Seas
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Mexico, England, South America, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th/19th Cenutry

Celebrated writer and historian Maria Graham must make the treacherous voyage from Brazil to London to deliver her latest book to her publisher. Having come to terms with the loss of her beloved husband, Maria now has renewed hope...

Santa Olivia

Santa Olivia
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Carey
  • Location(s): Mexico, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Near Future

Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive “Wolf-Man” who had a love affair with a local...

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
  • Author(s): Douglas Cowie
  • Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/50s

Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...

Gringos in Paradise

Gringos in Paradise
  • Author(s): Barry Golson
  • Location(s): Sayulita
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“A Year in Provence” meets “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” in this lively and entertaining account of a couple’s year building their dream house in Mexico. In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an award-winning article for “AARP” magazine about...

Epiphany Jones

Epiphany Jones
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Cannes, Mexico, Oporto, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who...

Caramelo

Caramelo
  • Author(s): Sandra Cisneros
  • Location(s): Chicago, Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern/20th century

Every year the three Reyes sons and their families drive south from Chicago via Route 66 to the home of the Awful Grandmother and the Little Grandfather on Destiny Street in Mexico City. From the back seat of her...

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