- Location(s): Greece, Ithaka (Ithaca)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Late 20th Century/Modern
A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection and the power of a tomato. ‘I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man’s missing birthday in Diana Rosie’s debut novel, Alberto’s Lost Birthday. Alberto is an old man. But he doesn’t know how old – he remembers nothing...
All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise
- Location(s): The Surin Islands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the small island of Surin, near the naval border of Thailand and Myanmar, an indigenous people known as Moken ‘sea gypsies’ struggle to maintain the same timeless existence as their ancestors. As real estate developers, oil exploration and...
All Creatures Great and Small: “If Only They Could Talk” and “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet”
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1930s
This is the rural landscape of North Yorkshire. The life of a vet in the 1930s, beautifully written and a classic of its time.
- 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): France, Rwanda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
AN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART BY THE TUTSI GENOCIDE Blanche returns to Rwanda after building a life in Bordeaux with her husband and young son, Stokely. Reuniting with her mother Immaculata, old wounds are reopened...
- Location(s): Catalonia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intoxicating story of collapse and survival Mei is a forty-two year-old editor living in Barcelona. After years of unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, and having grown apart from her husband, she decides to escape her crude reality when...
- Location(s): Oregon, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a year-long exchange programme in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. An unforgettably witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience...
- 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...