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Christmas With The Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #4)

Christmas With The Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #4)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WWII

Manchester, 1941 Christmas is the season for family and friends, and this year the railway girls will need each other more than ever. Cordelia appears to have the perfect life. When her daughter Emily arrives home unexpectedly, she can’t...

Circling the Sun

Circling the Sun
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who...

City Of A Thousand Spies (Conor McBride #3)

City Of A Thousand Spies (Conor McBride #3)
  • Author(s): Kathryn Guare
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Conor McBride has accepted bargains he may live to regret – assuming he lives through them at all. He’s taken an undercover assignment in exchange for the chance to resume his career as a solo violinist. He’s also agreed...

City of Wonders

City of Wonders
  • Author(s): Eduardo Mendoza, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1888 - 1929

Eduardo Mendoza’s classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila “Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly...

Clarissa’s Warning

Clarissa’s Warning
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Fuerteventura
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A lottery jackpot changes Claire Bennett’s life. She buys an ancient stone ruin on the island of her dreams. Her mystic aunt Clarissa warns her of danger, but Claire pays no heed. Soon after moving to the idyllic island,...

Cobra

Cobra
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards’ murder is...

Coffee Killed My Mother

Coffee Killed My Mother
  • Author(s): Donna Koros Stramella
  • Location(s): New Jersey, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Coffee Killed My Mother tells the story of Anna Lee, an anxious 17-year-old whose life is stuck, largely because of her strained relationship with her mother Jacqueline, a quirky recovering alcoholic who is now addicted to coffee. The two...

Coins in the Fountain

Coins in the Fountain
  • Author(s): Judith Works
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Through wit, wry humor, and enticing descriptions of food and travel adventures, Judith takes you on a journey into the heart of what it is truly like to live in the Eternal City. A combination of Innocents Abroad meeting...

Cold as Hell

Cold as Hell
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 1: An Áróra Investigation Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren’t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon...

Colouring Scotland

Colouring Scotland
  • Author(s): Laura Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adult colouring exploded onto the publishing scene with the huge, runaway international success of Scot Johanna Basford’s Enchanted Forest and Secret Garden books.Here, talented illustrator Laura Henderson takes us on a colouring journey across Scotland, covering all its most...

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