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The House That Alice Built

The House That Alice Built
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Portugal, Cascais
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Home is where the heart is … Alice Dorothy Matthews is sensible. Whilst her best friend Kathy is living it up in Portugal and her insufferable ex Adam is travelling the world, Alice is working hard to pay for...

The House That Florence Left

The House That Florence Left
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Lagos (Portugal)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Could an unlikely inheritance be the secret to Bella’s happiness? Bella Cresswell likes her life organized. But when she inherits her great-aunt Flo’s house in the Algarve, her life gets decidedly disorganized. She flies to Portugal hoping for a...

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
  • Author(s): Richard Zimler
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1500s

The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of...

The Little Porto Book Club

The Little Porto Book Club
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Oporto (Porto)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introvert and self-described whodunnit enthusiast Viviane has never much believed in living life outside of the pages of a book. But when her interfering mother insists that Viviane needs some friends who aren’t fictional, she decides to head into...

The Return

The Return
  • Author(s): Dulce Maria Cardoso
  • Location(s): Angola, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal...

The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
  • Author(s): Diana Marcum
  • Location(s): Azores
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern Day

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean Islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and...

The Villa of Dreams

The Villa of Dreams
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seren Maddison left behind a rainy Britain to follow her dreams and live and work in Lisbon.The vibrancy, the beautiful scenery and the sunshine, made her fall in love and she knew, instantly, that it would be her forever...

The Weekend Away

The Weekend Away
  • Author(s): Sarah Alderson
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they’ve faced it all – be it Orla’s struggles as a new mother or Kate’s messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to...

The Wilds

The Wilds
  • Author(s): Sarah Pearse
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A perpetual drifter, Kier Templer lives her life on the road. Dubbed “the monster’s daughter” after her mother’s infamous crime, Kier has left her hometown and twin behind. Kier is haunted by the past, but one thing has always...

The Winding Road to Portugal: 20 Men From 11 Countries Share Their Stories

The Winding Road to Portugal: 20 Men From 11 Countries Share Their Stories
  • Author(s): Louise Ross
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do men navigate life at a time fraught with great uncertainty and rapid change, working and moving country to country, on their own or with a family? Is their path easy, because they’re men, fortuned with greater liberties...

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