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The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands
  • Author(s): Sarah Brooks
  • Location(s): China, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Welcome aboard The Great Trans-Siberian Express. It is the end of the 19th Century and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing...

The Cellist

The Cellist
  • Author(s): Daniel Silva
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Mdern

Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva follows up his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestsellers The Order, The New Girl, and The Other Woman with this riveting, action-packed tale of espionage and suspense featuring art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon. The fatal poisoning of a...

The Celtic Prince

The Celtic Prince
  • Author(s): Suellen Ocean
  • Location(s): England, France, Jerusalem, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Medieval

Females are wildly available to Jonathan, after all, he’s the prince. But when a strange girl, Ellen, wanders into his forest, he follows his instincts and his heart. However, she’s left behind an unfinished past and a man who...

The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house...

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

The Cemetery of Untold Stories
  • Author(s): Julia Alvarez
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland–the Dominican Republic–that Kirkus Reviews calls a “rich and moving saga” and Shelf Awareness calls “a...

The Center of Everything

The Center of Everything
  • Author(s): Jamie Harrison
  • Location(s): Long Island, Montana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968 - Contemporary

Set against the wild beauty of Montana as a woman attempts to heal from a devastating accident, this generational saga from the award-winning author of The Widow Nash is a heartfelt examination of how the deep bonds of family...

The Chain

The Chain
  • Author(s): Adrian McKinty
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

YOUR PHONE RINGS. A STRANGER HAS KIDNAPPED YOUR CHILD. TO FREE THEM YOU MUST ABDUCT SOMEONE ELSE’S CHILD. YOUR CHILD WILL BE RELEASED WHEN YOUR VICTIM’S PARENTS KIDNAP ANOTHER CHILD. IF ANY OF THESE THINGS DON’T HAPPEN: YOUR CHILD...

The Chains of Heaven

The Chains of Heaven
  • Author(s): Philip Marsden
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago. ‘Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a...

The Chalet Girl

The Chalet Girl
  • Author(s): Victoria Prince
  • Location(s): Swiss Alps
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Kristalldorf…where the world’s richest residents hold the sexiest secrets. Emmeline Everly is Kristalldorf’s latest resident. She might be living in the world’s most exclusive ski resort. But she’s firmly downstairs. Where Emme sees all the dirty laundry...

The Chalky Sea

The Chalky Sea
  • Author(s): Clare Flynn
  • Location(s): Eastbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War 2

Two troubled people struggle to find their way in a turbulent world. In July 1940, Gwen Collingwood drops her husband at the railway station, knowing she may never see him again. Two days later her humdrum world is torn...

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