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Agent 6

Agent 6
  • Author(s): Tom Rob Smith
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Russia, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Agent 6, the third and final outing for the conflicted former MGB officer, brings the trilogy of novels to a resounding climax. Leo’s new civilian life with his wife Raisa and his family has acquired equilibrium, but the USSR...

Air Babylon

Air Babylon
  • Author(s): Imogen Edwards Jones
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Air Babylon is a trawl through the highs, the lows, and the rapid descents of the travel industry. It catalogues the births, the deaths, the drunken brawls, the sexual antics, and the debauchery behind the scenes of the ultimate...

Airport

Airport
  • Author(s): Arthur Hailey
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Only available second hand, but still a great novel set at O’Hare aiport. It is an intense, and detailed look at a few people’s lives over a period of a few hours – airport staff, airline crews, passengers, relatives.

Alaskan Travels

Alaskan Travels
  • Author(s): Edward Hoagland
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Hoagland inserts historical facts about the towns and cities he visited, and he provides plenty of appealing natural descriptions of a wondrous landscape. A pleasing combination of personal essays and reflections, a love story and a naturalist’s view of...

Alex

Alex
  • Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost – beautiful, resourceful, tough – may be no ordinary victim, but her time is...

Alif the Unseen

Alif the Unseen
  • Author(s): G Willow Wilson
  • Location(s): United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

This is a compelling and bewitching first novel, perfect for book groups, that mixes old world magic with modern adventure. Welcome to the Empty Quarter, the domain of Djinn, ghouls, demons and the effrit who take the shapes of...

All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry

All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry
  • Author(s): Alex James
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex...

All For You

All For You
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

As TV’s favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn’t foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With a string of failed relationships behind her, surely history isn’t...

All Good Things

All Good Things
  • Author(s): Sarah Turnbull
  • Location(s): Tahiti
  • Era(s): Modern

“In this lushly written follow-up to Almost French, Sarah Turnbull explores a new paradise: Tahiti.

All I did was shoot my man

All I did was shoot my man
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8 million had been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices are across the street from where Zella...

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