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Sunshine and Second Chances

Sunshine and Second Chances
  • Author(s): Kim Nash
  • Location(s): The Algarve
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
  • Era(s): Now

It’s never too late for second chances. Liv wants her friends to think she has the perfect life. But honestly? She’s running on empty. Desperate for a break from her needy family, Liv is determined that as she and...

Tales and More Tales from the Mountain

Tales and More Tales from the Mountain
  • Author(s): Miguel Torga
  • Location(s): Portugal, Trás-os-Montes
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

These brief and telling stories of rustic life and love are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montes – over the mountains – region of North East Portugal. The author speaks of the men and women living there, complex...

The Caramel Vineyard

The Caramel Vineyard
  • Author(s): Axel Georg Bugge
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

The Caramel Vineyard is a story about family intrigue, treasure and wine on an estate in Portugal. Set in the wine region around Palmela, just south of Lisbon, it starts with the arrival of a young man for a...

The City and the Mountains

The City and the Mountains
  • Author(s): Eca de Queiroz
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

In this very funny late novel, published after his death, Eça’s satire is turned on the emptiness of city life and of modernity itself, and the bucolic second half, which bubbles with joie-de-vivre, reflects Eça’s own recently discovered joy...

The Colours of Death

The Colours of Death
  • Author(s): Patricia Marques
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2021

The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But according to witnesses, he may not have done this...

The Crime of Father Amaro

The Crime of Father Amaro
  • Author(s): Eca de Queiroz
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

Father Amaro sours for ever the life of the young AmeliaSet in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Am elia, and their interactions with Am elia’s mother, her atheist suitor,...

The Guilt Trip

The Guilt Trip
  • Author(s): Sandie Jones
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Mystery
  • Era(s): Conteporaryy

Jack and Rachel. Noah and Paige. Will and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each other for years. And Ali, Will’s new fiancée. To celebrate the forthcoming wedding, all three couples are having a weekend get-away together in Portugal. It’s...

The Hotel by the Sea

The Hotel by the Sea
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): The Algarve
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Romantic Escapes Book 13) Pack your bags and get ready to fall in love with The Hotel by the Sea—your next romantic getaway awaits! Rebecca needs to escape. After making a complete fool of herself watching the man she’s...

The House in Smyrna

The House in Smyrna
  • Author(s): Tatiana Salem Levy
  • Location(s): Brazil, Portugal, Smyrna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

In Rio de Janeiro, a woman suffering from a mysterious illness, which is eroding her body and mind, decides to accept a challenge from her grandfather: to take the key to the house where he grew up – in...

The House on the Hill: A Summer in the Algarve

The House on the Hill: A Summer in the Algarve
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Lagos (Portugal), Portugal
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Layla is calm, in control and is definitely not about to lose her serenity for the man next door! Surely it can’t be hard to stay peaceful at one of the oldest yoga and mindfulness retreats in the Algarve,...

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