En route from Dublin to their holiday on Madeira, archivist Brendan and his partner Gabriel come across an extraordinary file in the National Archive of Lisbon: six love letters written in 1690 by one monk to another, at the height of the Portuguese Inquisition. The find leads to a second trove of correspondence, from the same monk to his...

On holiday in Morocco, Charlie finds himself in a house that is instantly familiar to him. The vivid memories it holds transport him back to his childhood in London, when he first met Amira, the girl next door. It also recalls his first time in Morocco when having just obtained his language degree in Spain, he visited the Amira’s family, now...

A novel based on the intertwined lives of Margaret MacDonald & Charles Rennie Mackintosh. War has broken out and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is in self-imposed exile from his native Glasgow, painting wildflowers in watercolour in a sleepy Suffolk village. As a man from ‘foreign parts’, however, he falls prey to the suspicions of...