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In Ethiopia with a Mule

In Ethiopia with a Mule
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1966

In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the...

In Exile

In Exile
  • Author(s): Alexandra Turney
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 20th century

‘No one in this city has believed in me for two thousand years. I’m unknown and unloved. And I’m very, very ill.’ He sighed, and the sound chilled her blood. ‘Give me your hand.’ Dionysus, god of wine and...

In Extremis

In Extremis
  • Author(s): Lindsey Hilsum
  • Location(s): Syria, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Biography

‘It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous,...

In Five Years

In Five Years
  • Author(s): Rebecca Serle
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2020 and 2025

Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day, this heart-breaking story of love, loss and life will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about destiny… ‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ Type-A Manhattan...

In Glass Houses

In Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Edel Coffey
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Twenty years ago, Eddie’s career as a journalist was destroyed by the Juliet Fox case. Juliet was young and beautiful, born into the privileged world of the Manhattan elite. Pulled into their orbit by her investigation, Eddie discovered how...

In Her Shadow

In Her Shadow
  • Author(s): Emma Christie
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bus driver Dave Kellock is a pillar of the community in Portobello, Edinburgh. But he’s got a terrible secret. His past is dragged into the present when an unexpected passenger steps onto his bus: the woman he killed almost...

In Her Shoes

In Her Shoes
  • Author(s): Jennifer Weiner
  • Location(s): Philadelphia
  • Era(s): Modern

Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she’s going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her...

In High Places

In High Places
  • Author(s): Arthur Hailey
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

As events bubbles to a scalding boil, leaders of two great nations fought in desperate secrecy to keep the lid on the world. Bartering, backstabbing, browbeating, bribing…and praying for a little more weight to throw on the delicate balance...

In Hovering Flight

In Hovering Flight
  • Author(s): Joyce Hinnefeld
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

At 34, Scarlet Kavanagh has the kind of homecoming no child wishes, a visit back to family and dear friends for the gentle passing of her mother, Addie, a famous bird artist and an even more infamous environmental activist....

In Light of Recent Events

In Light of Recent Events
  • Author(s): Amy Klinger
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In the 1990s American workplace, survival of the fittest is sometimes less about clawing your way to the top than developing good camouflage. And Audrey Rohmer is doing her very best to blend in as an undistinguished middle manager....

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