Burning Angel and Other Stories
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
This first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere – and characters out of their depth A naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission...
- Location(s): Bergamo, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A sister’s love versus a cruel fate. A story of fierce love and heartbreaking grief. Claire Waters, an Italian mystery writer living in Los Angeles, rushes to Italy after her older sister’s devastating brain-hemorrhage, determined to restore her health-or...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
The world is on the brink of disaster.The environment, society and mankind itself are facing extreme challenges in a world that is both more connected, and yet more divided than ever before. Fear and confusion seep into all parts...
- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1957
September 1957 Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and the town is deserted. As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book focuses on sketching buildings and cityscapes from observation using coloured pencil It clarifies the mystery of perspective along with the other aspects of sketching It stresses rapid sketching in the moment allowing the right-brain to take over...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A. With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After...
- Location(s): Queensland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Is the future set like concrete, or a piece of clay we can mould and change? On a remote farm in Queensland, Cassie Shultz feels useless. Her perfect brother Alex has an uncanny ability to predict the weather, and...
- Location(s): Christchurch
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
What began as a routine exhumation of a suspected murder victim quickly turns complicated for private investigator Theodore Tate… Theo Tate is barely coping with life since his world was turned upside down two years ago. As he stands...
- Location(s): Chichester, Sussex
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
When DS David Angelis wakes from a coma, his world is turned upside down as he discovers he can see into the minds of others. Is he now a threat to his job, or will he use his supernatural...
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