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The Pink Hotel

The Pink Hotel
  • Author(s): Anna Stothard
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Venice Beach (LA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum’s bedroom at the...

Künstlers in Paradise

Künstlers in Paradise
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From WW2 onwards

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy...

The Vacation

The Vacation
  • Author(s): John Marrs
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Longlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series. How far would you run to escape your past? Venice...

Who Are We? ~ Venice

Who Are We? ~ Venice
  • Author(s): Michael Onofrey
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): mid-1960s and on

Venice, California, 1965–Albert Zay, nineteen years old, has moved to Venice from the San Fernando Valley to pursue a penchant for drawing and watercolors, day job enlisted for reasons of necessity. In a mixture of circumstances that embrace a...

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