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The Island Love Song

The Island Love Song
  • Author(s): Emma Cowell
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to the beautiful Greek Island of Hydra with this moving novel, filled with family secrets and romance Emma Cowell, author of THE HOUSE IN THE OLIVE GROVE, returns with her brand new, emotional and romantic novel set on...

Murder At The Allotment

Murder At The Allotment
  • Author(s): Julie Wassmer
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Whitstable Pearl Mysteries Book 10) Pearl’s tiny garden of Eden is transformed into a battlefield when the out of towners come to Whitstable… Pearl Nolan’s coastal allotment has always been a quiet haven – somewhere for her to relax...

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
  • Author(s): Catherine Mack
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for. Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating art...

Let The Games Begin

Let The Games Begin
  • Author(s): Rufaro Faith Mazarura
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2024

It’s the Athens 2024 Olympics and Zeke and Olivia are there to win. Zeke Moyo is the star athlete of Team GB. He’s in Athens to claim the title of fastest man in the world. Olivia Nkomo has landed...

Fire Music

Fire Music
  • Author(s): Connie Hampton Connally
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II, and early 21st century

Antal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wrote this piece in 1945, when...

Broken Fortune

Broken Fortune
  • Author(s): Aly Mennuti
  • Location(s): St John
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current Day

Elizabeth Sunderland—a forty-three-year-old wife and mother of two teenagers—is the oldest of five children in a blended family that never quite blended. The only thing that has held them together is the iron will of their wealthy parents: Benjamin...

Black Dog, Blue Sea: Circumnavigating the Caribbean with a Grumpy Old Man

Black Dog, Blue Sea: Circumnavigating the Caribbean with a Grumpy Old Man
  • Author(s): Danforth Slater
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty years after leaving home, serial traveller Dan Slater feels the need to reconnect with his loving, yet impassive, father. To this end, he hatches an ambitious plan to take the old man on a three-month long circumnavigation of...

Wabi Sabi

Wabi Sabi
  • Author(s): Beth Kempton
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Culture
  • Era(s): N/A

Wabi sabi (“wah-bi sah-bi”) is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection, appreciate simplicity and accept the transient nature of all things. With roots in zen and the way of tea, the...

The Midnight Man

The Midnight Man
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1946

Winter 1946 One cold dark night, as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war life, a young nurse goes missing from the South London Hospital for Women & Children. Her body is discovered hours later behind a...

The Last Rose of Shanghai

The Last Rose of Shanghai
  • Author(s): Weina Dai Randel
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music… 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is...

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