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- Location(s): London, Peru
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1823
Rainbow, an African shaman travels through London in the early-nineteenth century in an attempt to locate the gods who will rescue his homeland from famine. Ending up with the mercenaries in the Peruvian War of Independence he finds his...
- Location(s): Peru, Japan
- Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
- Era(s): Present
In a chilling continuation of their Apex Predator novels, Bayard & Holmes compel us into the darkest corners of the Shadow World. A world where billionaires are not subject to governments and assassins, rogue nations, and terrorists are their...
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 2000s
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Lima, Mendoza
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
In 1810, José de San Martín deserts the Spanish Army and returns home to Buenos Aires to lead a bloody revolt against his former masters. Struggling with an increasing dependence on opiates, San Martín forms a secret army of...
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Traveller Dervla Murphy and her nine-year-old daughter Rachel, accompanied by an endearing mule named Juana, clambered the length of Peru with only the most basic supplies to sustain them, spending most of their time above 10,000 feet. Their gruelling...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Flick’s big brother, Jack, goes missing in Peru and she is desperate to find him. But can she solve the greatest mystery of all: who Jack really is? A heartwarming, third novel from Waterstones Prize shortlisted author, Ewa Jozefkowicz,...
- Location(s): Cusco, Cambridgeshire
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
‘A good death is better than a bad conscience,’ said Sophie. 1983 – Georgie, Theo, Sophie and Helena, four disparate young Cambridge undergraduates, set out to scale Ausangate, one of the highest and most sacred peaks in the Andes....