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A Month in Provence

A Month in Provence
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • 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...

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • 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)

A New Day Dawns (Travels with Terry #2)
  • Author(s): Terry Lister
  • 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...

A Passage North

A Passage North
  • Author(s): Anuk Arudpragasam
  • 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....

A Perfect Stranger

A Perfect Stranger
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • 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....

A Perfectly Good Man

A Perfectly Good Man
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • 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...

A Place in the Hills

A Place in the Hills
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • 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...

A Quiet Flame

A Quiet Flame
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • 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...

A Quiet Life

A Quiet Life
  • Author(s): Ethan Joella
  • 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...

A Ruby in her Navel

A Ruby in her Navel
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • 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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