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How to Keep Well in Wartime

How to Keep Well in Wartime
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): Norfolk, France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1915 to 1993

Emily needs friends. Outwardly successful, about to get married, inside she is scared and grieving. When an accident reveals a relative she never knew existed, everything changes. Jim has buried his life in a mundane job at the Ministry...

Human Remains

Human Remains
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock are back in a cutting-edge new thriller. The truth will always come out, but at what cost?  Fresh from successfully closing their first live case, the Future Policing Unit are called in to investigate...

Hunter Killer

Hunter  Killer
  • Author(s): Brad Taylor
  • Location(s): Charleston, Brazil, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2018

The Taskforce were once apex predators, an unrivalled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the USA, but they may have met their match. While Pike is preparing to join the team on a counter-terrorist mission in South...

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
  • Author(s): Nujood Ali
  • Location(s): Yemen
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

(copied from Amazon.co.uk) “I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Nujood Ali’s childhood...

I am Pilgrim

I am Pilgrim
  • Author(s): Terry Hayes
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive...

I Love Capri

I Love Capri
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Capri, Verona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Kim Rees became a translator for the glamorous jet-set lifestyle. So, five years later, how come she’s ended up in a basement flat in Cardiff translating German computer games in her dressing gown? Fortunately her mother has a plan...

I’ll Keep You Safe

I’ll Keep You Safe
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A stunning standalone thriller from Peter May, alternating between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris. WHATEVER HAPPENS Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business...

Iban Woman

Iban Woman
  • Author(s): Golda Mowe
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Twenty-year-old Ratai is proud and strong for she is the eldest child of Nuing, the Iban warrior who went to the invisible world and returned alive, and the granddaughter of Bujang Maias, the great headhunter who was raised by...

Ice

Ice
  • Author(s): Jacek Dukaj, Ursula Phillips (Translator)
  • Location(s): Siberia, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien. 14th July 1924: In a Warsaw buried under feet of snow and Russian rule, Benedykt Gieroslawski, a dissolute...

If The Dead Rise Not

If The Dead Rise Not
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1950s

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations –...

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