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Ivory Ghosts

Ivory Ghosts
  • Author(s): Caitlin O'Connell
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Thriller

In a blockbuster debut thriller brimming with majestic wildlife, village politics, and international intrigue, a chilling quadruple homicide raises the stakes in the battle to save Africa’s elephants. Still grieving over the tragic death of her fiancé, American wildlife...

J.D.: The Life and Death of a Forgotten NASCAR Legend

J.D.: The Life and Death of a Forgotten NASCAR Legend
  • Author(s): Brock Beard
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

August 11, 1991. Watkins Glen, New York. 52-year-old John Delphus “J.D.” McDuffie, Jr. climbs aboard his No. 70 Pontiac, lined up 35th on the grid for NASCAR’s Budweiser at the Glen. For the 653rd time, he pinches a cigar...

Jack

Jack
  • Author(s): Marilynne Robinson
  • Location(s): St Louis
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1950s

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John...

Jack and the German Spy

Jack and the German Spy
  • Author(s): Bernard Ashley
  • Location(s): Hayling Island
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1939

It’s 1939 and a mass evacuation of London’s children is about to begin. That includes Jack, who’d much rather stay on the streets of Woolwich, bombs or no bombs. When Lady Ashwell patriotically sweeps him off to the Hall,...

Jack Dawkins

Jack Dawkins
  • Author(s): Charlton Daines
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

Jack Dawkins, once known as the Artful Dodger in the streets of London, was sent to Australia on a prison ship when he was little more than a boy. Now he has returned to find that London has changed...

Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band

Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band
  • Author(s): Enrico Brizzi
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

An international bestseller, this hot, hip and quirky love story from a talented young Italian author has been hailed as the Catcher in the Rye of the 90’s. Alex D. is in his penultimate year in an upmarket Bologna...

Jack of Kinrowan

Jack of Kinrowan
  • Author(s): Charles de Lint
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

A faceless gang of bikers on Wild Hunt through the streets of present-day Ottawa hurtles young Jacky Rowan across the threshold into the perilous land of Faerie. There, to her dismay, she is hailed as the Jack of Kinrowan,...

Jack the Ripper: Case Closed

Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
  • Author(s): Gyles Brandreth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

London. 1894. ‘I am not a detective, chief constable.’ ‘No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.’ So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde,...

Jackal’s Dance

Jackal’s Dance
  • Author(s): Beverley Harper
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

‘Twelve pairs of eyes watched the Land Rovers leave … Once the tourists were out of sight, their leader rose and gestured that the others should follow. Their destination lay thirteen kilometres to the east–Logans Island Lodge.’ As the...

Jagua Nana

Jagua Nana
  • Author(s): Cyprian Ekwensi
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life – with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos:...

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