- Location(s): Costa del Sol
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in Southern Spain, A Silent Death is the scorching new thriller from worldwide bestselling author of The Lewis Trilogy, Cast Iron and I’ll Keep You Safe. A SILENT VOW Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The temples and teahouses of Kyoto are the scene of a Frenchwoman’s emotional awakening in the stunning new novel by international bestseller Muriel Barbery. Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she...
- Location(s): Udupi, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Two sisters. Bound by blood. Torn apart by love. My sister – the glue that held our family together and the gatekeeper to the memories of our shared childhood. The girl I made a pact with – to protect...
- Location(s): St Ives
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When tragedy brings Merrin McKenzie back to St Ives, she knows adjusting might take time, even with the comfort of Christmas back in her hometown. Stepping back from her career as a solicitor, she agrees to clean holiday rentals...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Amy, Linda, Kate and Jane were best friends at school. Now, years later, they have grown apart. When Amy discovers her husband has been stealing from her successful interiors business, and with a milestone birthday looming, she decides it...
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
Belgium has had its share of defining moments: the treaty of Vienna after Napoleon, two world wars and, rounding out the 20th century, contaminated Coke come to mind. In A Tall Man in a Low Land the curmudgeonly comic...
- Location(s): Hydra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960
1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what’s the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these...
- Location(s): Northern Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1972
Clara’s sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Seven-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents’ efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th Century
It’s hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long and forbidden love affair of the 18th-century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne. Andrea Di Robilant’s A Venetian Affair is drawn in...
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