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Peaks and Bandits

Peaks and Bandits
  • Author(s): Alf Bonnevie Bryn
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): early 20th century

In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set their sights on Corsica to build their experience. The events of this memorable trip form the...

Pearl

Pearl
  • Author(s): Sîan Hughes
  • Location(s): Cheshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s...

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia (Malaya), New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the...

Peck & Peck

Peck & Peck
  • Author(s): Bonnie Garmus
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982

It’s 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants – an ‘ear’ for poetry – is worried about his future....

Pegasus

Pegasus
  • Author(s): Marilyn Holdsworth
  • Location(s): New Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Widowed at thirty, Hannah Bradley is a successful journalist focusing on animal abuse issues. An accidental meeting introduces her to lawyer, Winston Caughfield III. Drawn to Hannahs gentle beauty and fierce commitment to her work, Win joins her in...

Pelican Girls

Pelican Girls
  • Author(s): Julia Malye
  • Location(s): New Orleans, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

A historical feministic epic, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver, The Matrix by Lauren Groff and Maggie Shipstead’s The Great Circle. Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with ‘difficult’ women. Halfway around the world, on the American...

Pen Pals

Pen Pals
  • Author(s): Martin Gore
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From 1900 to 2000

Brenda Arkwright has been the Managing Director of Murgatroyd Pens for much of her working life. She is popular, personable and competent. But Brenda has secrets. When Jean Murgatroyd passes away in a nursing home in the northern industrial...

Pengelly’s Daughter

Pengelly’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Nicola Pryce
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late Eighteenth century

Rose Pengelly’s father has been ruined – plunging Rose and her mother into poverty. There appears to be only one way out of their terrible circumstances: for Rose to marry Mr Tregellas, a powerful timber merchant and the man...

Penguin Highway

Penguin Highway
  • Author(s): Tomihiko Morimi
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

I may be a fourth grader, but I know more than some adults. After all, I take notes every day, and I read all kinds of books. But now, there’s penguins in my town! I know it has something...

Penguin Lost

Penguin Lost
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov
  • Location(s): Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Viktor – last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha – seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity...

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