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Location(s): Cape Town, London, Zanzibar
Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
Era(s): Modern
Ex Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early...
Location(s): Europe
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1980s
The Sojourners is a coming of age novel (fiction) set in the 1980s – a journey through Europe with vivid imagery, poetry and references to great songs of that era throughout. From the book cover – “Filled with colorful...
Location(s): Guernsey
Genre(s): Historical, Romance
Era(s): WW2
As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom...
Location(s): Tuscany
Genre(s): Romance
Era(s): Modern
Annie sets out to make a better life for herself in a mystical, timelessly beautiful Tuscan valley. Intrigued by Joe, her American neighbour and strangely drawn to the ancient cypress which protects her new home, she begins to stretch...
Location(s): Paris, Royal Tunbridge Wells
Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
Era(s): Modern
Opera gets sexy! American music mogul Teddy Wilson combines the beauty of opera with the marketability of pop and creates the pop-opera multinational singing group called “Bel Homme.” French for “Beautiful Man,” the four performers he chooses are much...
Location(s): Germany
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 18th Century
A key work in the German ‘Sturm und Drang’ movement, Johann Goethe’s autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This Penguin...
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Location(s): Tasmania
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
‘Flanagan’s enthralling and powerful novel centres on a Slovenian couple, Bojan and Maria Buloh, and their daughter Sonja. The story begins in 1954, when Sonja is three, and ends in 1990, when she is in her late thirties ....
Location(s): Japan
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 20th Century
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji...
Location(s): Barcelona, Madrid
Genre(s): Historical
Era(s): 1890s - 1940s
A rich novel of music, politics and life, seen throught the eyes of Feliu
Location(s): Madrid, Spain
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
One of Spain’s richest men is dying. But as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is making plans to give away his wealth to a young woman they have never even heard of. Who...