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Distant Music

Distant Music
  • Author(s): Lee Langley
  • Location(s): London, Madeira
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1420s-2000s

Distant Music comprises four different stories, spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The book starts out in Madeira in 1429, with the backdrop of Portugal as a marine empire, Christopher Columbus features briefly, anti-Semitism is a recurring...

Divas Don’t Knit

Divas Don’t Knit
  • Author(s): Gil McNeil
  • Location(s): England, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is the same as the Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club. Jo is looking for a new life, after the death of her philandering husband. She decides to up sticks and relocate to the coast and...

Divas Las Vegas

Divas Las Vegas
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Jamie and Izzy, friends for ever, have a dream: a spangly double wedding in Las Vegas. And, at twenty-seven, they decide they’ve had enough crap boyfriends and they’re ready for crap husbands – all they have to do is...

Diving Belles

Diving Belles
  • Author(s): Lucy Wood
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

12 short stories…..Cornwall’s magic casts some pretty strong spells. The stories in Lucy Wood’s debut collection have a distinctly otherworldly sensation to them – slightly surreal, steeped in enchantments and shimmering with an infusion of the area’s folklore and...

Divorce Islamic Style

Divorce Islamic Style
  • Author(s): Amara Lakhous
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

It’s 2005. The Italian secret service has received news that a group of Muslim immigrants based in the Viale Marconi neighbourhood of Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover...

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Do They Hear You When You Cry
  • Author(s): Fauziya Kassindja
  • Location(s): Germany, Togo, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from the injustices of her culture. Fauziya Kassindja’s harrowing story...

Dodo Destiny

Dodo Destiny
  • Author(s): Tom Parker
  • Location(s): Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1500s onwards

Dodo Destiny examines the sad tale of the dodo and the intriguing history of its native Mauritius, a beautiful island nation home to one of today’s truly multicultural societies. The dodo is a universal symbol of extinction, yet little...

Dog Fight

Dog Fight
  • Author(s): Matt Burgess
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set Queens. lfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose-sorry, Tariq-is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now...

Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers
  • Author(s): Robert Stone
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New Mexico, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action – and profit – by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go...

Dogstar Rising

Dogstar Rising
  • Author(s): Parker Bilal
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the heat is rising… The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred.As tensions mount, Makana – who fled his home in Sudan...

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