- Location(s): Manhattan, Roosevelt Island
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Earlier 2000s
A charming, tender and life-affirming memoir of a woman’s unlikely bond with a 93-year-old widower With its delicious food, warm jazz, and stunning views of Manhattan, Edward’s home was a much-needed refuge for reporter Isabel Vincent. Her recently widowed...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1956
It is the time of the Hungarian Revolution and the KGB loom ominously in the background. Gilman family has just arrived and are getting settled in the city, he a CIA agent and Peggy, is wife, Mother and amateur...
- Location(s): Alexandria
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 47BC
Alexandria, 47BC. Cleopatra – seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt – watches over her city. The war is over, but Alexandria, that once great beacon of learning and commerce, has...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1600s
Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumptuous new palaces and lavish wealth on display. A city where women are seen but not heard. Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a...
- Location(s): County Cork, The Mediterranean
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Did she leave, or was she taken? The day Adam Dunne’s girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2015
Life’s tough for a Gypsy cop in Budapest. The cops don’t trust you because you’re a Gypsy. Your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun you because you’re a cop. The dead, however, don’t care. So when Balthazar Kovacs,...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is the story of three women eating our way across India in search of adventure, elephants, temples, palaces, western toilets, monkeys, the perfect paratha…and the kindness of Indian strangers. Despite blizzards, canceled flights, de-icing delays, and an adjacent...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book focuses on Qui and Tam, the granddaughter, who is dying of leukemia, and the story of Mai and Minh, two children under the dubious “protection” of an opium-fiend named Loc. Iris picks up where her father left...
- Location(s): Positano
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980s
A young boy runs away to sea. An elderly countess finds a stray dog – and love. A Patricia Highsmith fan follows in her idol’s footsteps, in more ways than one. A woman goes in search of her roots...
- Location(s): China, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps...
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