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BONES IN THE RIVER

BONES IN THE RIVER
  • Author(s): Zoë Sharp
  • Location(s): Appleby-in-Westmorland
  • Genre(s): Noir, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The traditional Appleby Horse Fair hosts the largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe. The sudden influx of more than 40,000 visitors into the small Lakeland town has always caused its share of problems, with strained relations between...

Born in the Purple

Born in the Purple
  • Author(s): Dora Ilieva
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1083-1131

It is Anno Domini 1083. At the Blachernae Palace in Constantinople, a princess is born. What will her fate be? Will she be married off in order to create an advantageous political alliance? Or will she be sent to...

Boyhood Island

Boyhood Island
  • Author(s): Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Location(s): Tromøy
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

No. 3 in the series. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of...

Breaking the Tongue

Breaking the Tongue
  • Author(s): Vyvyane Loh
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

On the eve of World War II, Claude Lim, a Chinese youth, uncertain of himself and his nationality, is being raised in a family that strongly identifies with the British colonists in Singapore. The family neither speaks nor understands...

Bridge of Sighs and Dreams

Bridge of Sighs and Dreams
  • Author(s): Pamela Allegretto
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War 2

Nazi-occupied Rome sets the stage for Bridge of Sighs and Dreams, where the lives of two women collide in an arena of deception, greed, and sacrifice. Following an allied attack, Angelina Rosini flees to Rome from her bombed-out village...

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Cahirsiveen, County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When bright, beautiful Penny O’Dwyer disappears from Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, the local police scour the narrow streets and muddy hills, but find no leads. Jessie Boyle swore she’d never return to Ireland. But...

Building Stories

Building Stories
  • Author(s): Chris Ware
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

In Chris Ware’s own words, ‘Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life: a couple who wonder if...

Bullets of Palestine

Bullets of Palestine
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • Location(s): Vienna, Jerusalem, Lebanon, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and...

Call it Sleep

Call it Sleep
  • Author(s): Henry Roth
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother’s arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the ‘Golden Land’. David is hated by his father – an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in...

Call Me Joe

Call Me Joe
  • Author(s): Martin van Es, Andrew Crofts
  • 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...

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