- 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.
- Location(s): Cannes
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Serena has the job she’s always dreamed of and Chase, the man her heart never dared to. As a new editor at Vogue, she bags the biggest interview of the year with Yvette Renault, the infamous former editor of...
French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley
- Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th century
***Bronze Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction – Travel category at the 2014 Readers’ Favorite Book Award Contest*** Most lies are told with the expectation that no one will uncover them. When I was twenty-one I told a monumental and...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Set in the Great Depression and told retrospecitvely from the 1980s. Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison have opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the small town in Alabama became a home form home. You could get eggs, grits, bacon,...
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