- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From WW2 into second half 20th Century
A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment. One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1920s
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen’s crowning achievement – an intricate and utterly compelling narrative. Christensen is one of Scandinavia’s finest and most celebrated storytellers, who has devoted the best part of his...
Echoes of Time – The Guernsey Novels Book 5
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): WWII and present day
Betrayal, injustice and revenge echo down the years… 1940. Olive marries farmer Bill Falla. The Germans occupy Guernsey. All too soon Olive realises she’s made a mistake. Her life changes when she meets Wolfgang, a German officer- but there’s...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese children, born...
- Location(s): Porto Cervo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set on the glamorous Italian island, Anita Hughes’s Emerald Coast is a touching and humorous story about marriage and the difficulty of finding love and happiness at the same time. Lily Bristol arrives at a luxurious resort in Sardinia...
- Location(s): North Uist
- Era(s): Modern
Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1983 and present day
You can always go home. But you can never go back . . . Summer 1983: Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared....
- Location(s): Kent, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
Barbara Copperthwaite writing as Barbara Havelocke You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to...
- Location(s): South Tyrol / Trentino Alto Adige
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
40-year-old Eva receives an unexpected message from Calabria, Italy. Vito is ill and would like to see her one more time. A retired police officer, he was stationed in South Tyrol during the 1960s, troubled years of tension and...
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