- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Interior designer Nicky always used to know how to make the best of things. Ever since she lost her husband though, things haven’t been easy. She’s had to raise her two daughters alone and she’s so proud to see...
- Location(s): The Latin Quarter (5/6 ème)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Post WW2
Sure to excite critics and readers alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced. In the world of letters it...
A New Day Dawns (Travels with Terry #2)
- Location(s): Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Liberia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2017
He’s Back! In his first book, Immersed in West Africa, Terry Lister took readers on a harrowing West African adventure in Senegal, Mauritania, the Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. In A New Day Dawning, the second installment of the...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall....
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two marriages. Three little lies. Someone’s going to die… I hold my breath as my handsome husband walks through the door. I’ve planned the perfect surprise birthday party for him. Our friends are gathered and the champagne is flowing....
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There’s a particular strain of English mildness that carries within it a finely wrought undercurrent of viciousness. It’s there in the title of Patrick Gale’s new novel, A Perfectly Good Man, which you could either take literally – that...
- Location(s): Rome, The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1st Century AD, Modern
Antonia had become obsessed with a long-dead poet, Cassius. A soldier and lover, he had lived in the hills of Provence in Roman times where Antonia was now engaged in an archaeological dig. Her father was hoping to uncover...
- Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s, 1950s
The action switches largely between Berlin in 1932 – and Bernie’s last abandoned case as a police officer when the mutilated body of a spastic teenage girl is discovered – and Buenos Aires in 1950 where he is invited...
- Location(s): LeHigh Valley, Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
From the author of A Little Hope—a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick–comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
The Court of King Roger in Twelfth century Sicily simmers with the volatile passions of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Latins and Greeks. Among them, a young Norman called Thurstan Beauchamp finds employment under Yusuf, a Muslim who holds the Christian...










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