- Location(s): Córdoba
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
MEET EVA MARTÍNEZ-GREEN, AN ONLY CHILD FULL OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HER BEGINNINGS. But between her emotionally absent mother and her physically absent father, there is nobody to answer them. So Eva begins a journey to find these answers for...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Dual Timeline - 1944 and 2019
2019. When Imogen Wren’s husband dies, she must realise their dream of moving to France on her own. She finds a beautiful abandoned chateau and starts to rebuild her life among its ruins. But she soon notices that the...
- Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1943 WW2
France, 1943. Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French Alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
London, 1756: In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in the back streets of London, to conjuror’s assistant, to celebrated courtesan...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
Walking through Montmartre that morning was like the eerie calm right before a storm. The roads were deserted. We carried on, arm in arm, and then finally, we saw them. Columns and columns of soldiers, spreading through the streets...
- Location(s): Tangier, Andalusia (Andalucía), Gibraltar
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s looking back to 1920s
In the dead of night, with blood on her hands, she made her escape. Accused of murder, Alejandra flees her home, escaping to the southern edge of Spain, where she faces a life of poverty and destitution. Seduced by...
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival
- Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Françoise Malby-Anthony never expected to find herself responsible for a herd of elephants with a troubled past. A chic Parisienne, her life changed forever when she fell in love with South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Together they founded a...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in...
- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Adventure
- Era(s): Modern
How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives,...
- Location(s): Lake Como
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Paul and Nicola, artist and his wife relocate to Lake Como, the warm descriptive writing of the process is beautiful, the locals come to life. A great book to help understand the ways of the people who live around...
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