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High Wire in Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #9)

High Wire in Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #9)
  • Author(s): Harriet Steel
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Much to the delight of the locals, a colourful Russian circus rolls into Nuala, but the fun ends abruptly when, on the opening night, a tragic accident takes place. Shanti de Silva and his wife, Jane are among the...

High, Wide and Lonesome

High, Wide and Lonesome
  • Author(s): Hal Borland
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Hal Borland migrated with his parents to the still unsettled, windswept high plains of eastern Colorado to take advantage of the Homestead Act. There they built a house from scratch, raised livestock, and worked hard living off the land....

High-Rise

High-Rise
  • Author(s): J G Ballard
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven...

Highcrag

Highcrag
  • Author(s): Rosemary Gemmell
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Cate Stewart’s life falls apart, a job cataloguing the vast library at Highcrag on the Scottish east coast sounds perfect. Especially since she has a personal interest in the notorious Scottish witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth...

Highland Arms

Highland Arms
  • Author(s): Cathie Dunn
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Georgian, 1720s

Escape to the Scottish Highlands in this “vivid & suspenseful romance”. Betrayed by her brother’s lies, Catriona MacKenzie is banished from her home to her godmother’s manor in the remote Scottish Highlands. While her family ponders her fate, Catriona’s...

Highland Fling on the Whisky Trail

Highland Fling on the Whisky Trail
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

What happens in Glenbriar stays in Glenbriar When sunny and efficient Felicity Swan lands her dream job as PA to the new CEO of the Glenbriar Whisky Co., the dream soon turns into a nightmare. Gavin Sinclair isn’t what...

Highland Games

Highland Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s left her life behind for a dream… Inheriting a cabin in a remote corner of Scotland, sunny Zoe ditches the big city and heads for the Highlands. But her fantasies are shattered by reality. The roof leaks, there’s...

Highway Blue

Highway Blue
  • Author(s): Ailsa McFarlane
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A hypnotic debut of broken love on the run, from a blazingly original young writer. “In front of me the long length of the road wound out, wound out and wound on under hot sky. And I drove ....

Highways and Thai Ways

Highways and Thai Ways
  • Author(s): Carol Nash
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2002

Stealing six weeks away from the family business, a middle-aged couple takes a well-deserved, and long overdue, holiday. With return tickets to Bangkok, a craving for an adventure, a change of clothing, and accommodation booked for the first night...

Hijabi Girl

Hijabi Girl
  • Author(s): Ozge Alkan, Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Current day

Melbourne-based, 8 year old Melek always find answers,some are under her super hijab. For others she needs the help of newcomer Tien who draws fantastic worlds as an escape, or the dress-ups- guru Lily, and sometimes even soccer-mad Zac...

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