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Gods of the Lost Crossroads

Gods of the Lost Crossroads
  • Author(s): Robin Lloyd-Jones
  • 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...

The Caiman of Iquitos

The Caiman of Iquitos
  • Author(s): Bayard and Holmes
  • 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

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
  • Author(s): Alvaro Mutis
  • 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...

The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)

The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)
  • Author(s): Matt Beighton, Amalia Rendon (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The fourth and most spooky Monstacademy mystery. The mountains are full of secrets… Trixie, Gloria and Colin are off on a trip to Peru to study ancient monsters. When they arrive and find that the children of the local...

To the Last City

To the Last City
  • Author(s): Colin Thubron
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers – men and women with different values, temperaments and motives – find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on...

A Storm hits Valparaiso

A Storm hits Valparaiso
  • Author(s): David Gaughran
  • 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

Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • 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...

Behind Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir

Behind Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir
  • Author(s): Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the...

The Key to Finding Jack

The Key to Finding Jack
  • Author(s): Ewa Jozefkowicz
  • 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,...

A Good Death

A Good Death
  • Author(s): H L Davis
  • 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....

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