- Location(s): Israel, Palestine
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): contemporary
Ten years after breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels to write life at the roadsides of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. His journey weaves from fertile...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mystical, yet at the same time worldly, and written in a quirky lilt (in three very different voices), this feast for the senses will lavish your own life with tears and delight, and perhaps a little more than a...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century/Early 21st century
Set around London/South East England and mainly in Cornwall. When Wren Irving’s numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn’t tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter Phoebe...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 79AD and Modern
On mountain slopes south of Pompeii a group of Roman citizens flees the doomed city, leaving their footprints in a layer of volcanic ash. Two thousand years later the footprints are rediscovered, and a joint Anglo-Italian dig is set...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there...
- Location(s): Victoria
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
FIVE WENT OUT. FOUR CAME BACK… Is Alice here? Did she make it? Is she safe? In the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four had asked after Alice’s welfare. Later, when everything...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Anna has just had her heart broken in LA. But unlike most women who have been unlucky with love, she has an enviable backup plan – she uses her dual citizenship and moves to Paris to live in her...
- Location(s): Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920 to present
Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, she only wants to endure Mary, and the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The author spent a Summer with the gondoliers to find out what they are really about. She looks behind the mystery of the gondoliere and brings them to life.
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