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Pastel & Pen: Travels in Europe

Pastel & Pen: Travels in Europe
  • Author(s): Carol M Cram, Gregg Simpson
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1995-2018

Experience a comic romp through Western Europe in Pastel & Pen — a “non-collaborative collaboration” between artist Gregg Simpson and novelist Carol M. Cram. Their adventures engage your senses and tweak your funny bone. Plunge into a flamenco club...

Pastures New

Pastures New
  • Author(s): Clare Balding
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alex has perfected the art of dodging responsibility during her almost 40 years — until an unexpected letter turns her life upside down. She’s inherited a crumbling sheep farm in deepest, wettest Wales. This was not her life plan....

Patagonia Express

Patagonia Express
  • Author(s): Luis Sepulveda
  • Location(s): Patagonia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luis Sepulveda has a passion: traveling. Wandering the world, watching people and hearing stories. But Sepulveda has another passion, that in symbiosis with the previous one, which is to tell by himself, in his own way, those listened stories...

Patchwork

Patchwork
  • Author(s): Ellen Banda-Aaku
  • Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo, and that of her mother, his mistress – this emotive tale...

Paternoster

Paternoster
  • Author(s): Kim Fleet
  • Location(s): Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Dual: 1795 and today

1795 With a thief-taker close on her heels, prostitute Rachel Lovett is forced to leave London and take up residence in a Cheltenham brothel. Greville House seems the perfect place to start her hunt for wealthy clientele but rumours...

Patience

Patience
  • Author(s): Victoria Scott
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new high-risk treatment gives you the chance to cure your child’s disease. Do you take it? The Willows have been through a lot. Louise has devoted her life to caring for her disabled youngest daughter. Pete works abroad,...

Patience, Miyuki

Patience, Miyuki
  • Author(s): Roxane Marie Galliez, Seng Soun Ratanavanh (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Anyone with a small child knows that patience is not a virtue easily won. In this magically illustrated story the young girl Miyuki, who we first met in the critically acclaimed Time for Bed, Miyuki, anxiously awaits the opening...

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
  • Author(s): Artemis Cooper
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe,...

Patrimony

Patrimony
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 60's and early 70's

During the turbulent sixties, the call for Quebec independence created a political and social maelstrom in Canada. For nearly ten years, riots, bombings, labor strikes and violent street scenes were part of everyday life in Montreal, the epicenter of...

Patriot

Patriot
  • Author(s): Alexei Navalny
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): contemporary

Patriot is the exhilarating life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our time, who became a beacon to millions and the sole political threat to Vladimir Putin. This is Alexei Navalny’s life in his...

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