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Carrie

Carrie
  • Author(s): Stephen King
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An exciting reissue of Stephen King’s debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name. Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie...

Carte Blanche (007)

Carte Blanche (007)
  • Author(s): Jeffery Deaver
  • Location(s): Cape Town, Dubai, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is the 37th James Bond novel, written by American crime writer Jeffrey Deaver. It takes secret agent 007 from London to Serbia and Dubai, but much of the story is focused on the activities of Bond’s grotesque antagonist...

Casa Rossa

Casa Rossa
  • Author(s): Francesca Marciano
  • Location(s): Puglia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

This second novel by the author of the acclaimed Rules of the Wild is very much in the tradition of The Leopard or The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a compelling story of three generations in twentieth-century Italy. Casa Rossa,...

Case Histories

Case Histories
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem...

Cast-Iron Men

Cast-Iron Men
  • Author(s): Dominic Kearney
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A tense, pacy, violent crime thriller, Cast-Iron Men looks beyond the gloss of Liverpool’s status as City of Culture, as two tough and vulnerable female reporters gun for the big fish who think they run their small pond. Brutal...

Castaway

Castaway
  • Author(s): Lucy Irvine
  • Location(s): Tuin Island
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

Lucy Irvine replied to an advertisement which simply said: ” Writer seeks “wife” for a year on a tropical island.” Most of us would have probably thought about how wonderful it would be to get away for a year,...

Catch 22

Catch 22
  • Author(s): Joseph Heller
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Horror, Humour
  • Era(s): WW2

A classic of its time, it vacillates between horror and humour. Set towards the end World War II an American Bomber Squadron is stationed on a small island off Italy’s coast. An ever increasing number of missions means an...

Catch Me

Catch Me
  • Author(s): Lisa Gardner
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

IN FOUR DAYS, SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME… At 8pm on 21st January, twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D.D. Warren, to handle her death investigation. Confronting...

Catching the Sun

Catching the Sun
  • Author(s): Tony Parsons
  • Location(s): Phuket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand....

Cathedral of the Sea

Cathedral of the Sea
  • Author(s): Ildefonso Falcones
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

Santa Maria del Mar is in the process of being built. This is the city of Barcelona, witnessing the building of a great cathedral. Arnau, son of the Estanyol family joins the guild of stone workers and helps build...

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