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The Cape Town Book

The Cape Town Book
  • Author(s): Nechama Brodie
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Cape Town Book presents a fresh picture of the Mother City, one that brings together all its stories. From geology and beaches to forced removals and hip-hop, Nechama Brodie, author of the best-selling The Joburg Book, has delved...

The Captain’s Daughter

The Captain’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Sometimes you need to discover your own strength in order to survive … After a family tragedy, Janey Carhart was forced from her comfortable life as a captain’s daughter into domestic service. Determined to make something of herself, Janey...

The Captain’s Daughter

The Captain’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1912

The secrets in a woman’s heart are deeper than the ocean… For May Smith, travelling with her husband and baby girl Ellen, stepping foot on the Titanic marks the start of an incredible journey, one which is destined to...

The Captain’s Girl

The Captain’s Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Pryce
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late Eighteenth century

As the French Revolution threatens the stability of England, so too is discontent brewing in the heart of Celia Cavendish. Promised to the brutal Viscount Vallenforth, she must find a way to break free from the bounds of a...

The Car Share

The Car Share
  • Author(s): Zoe Brisby
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A ninety-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s and a heartbroken young man end up sharing a ride to Brussels that changes their lives forever. When Alex pulls up to meet “Max”, he expects everything but a ninety-year-old lady who has her...

The Caramel Vineyard

The Caramel Vineyard
  • Author(s): Axel Georg Bugge
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

The Caramel Vineyard is a story about family intrigue, treasure and wine on an estate in Portugal. Set in the wine region around Palmela, just south of Lisbon, it starts with the arrival of a young man for a...

The Caravaggio Conspiracy

The Caravaggio Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Alex Connor
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Italy, Palermo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1608 and 2014

1608. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the greatest Italian painter of his day, is expelled from the Order of the Knights of Malta. Subject to a clandestine hearing, his crime remains a closely guarded secret. 2014. Two bodies are found...

The Cardinal’s Court

The Cardinal’s Court
  • Author(s): Cora Harrison
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 16th century

‘To shoot a man on the spur of the moment in the presence of the king and his court, not to mention the cardinal and his household, that took a boldness … Or utter despair.’ HAMPTON COURT, 1522. Lawyer...

The Caretakers

The Caretakers
  • Author(s): Amanda Bestor-Siegal
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2015)

In the smart Parisian suburb of Maisons-Larue, in the wake of the Paris 2015 terrorist attacks, an au pair is arrested after the sudden and suspicious death of her nine-year-old charge… The truth behind what happened is unravelled through...

The Caribbean

The Caribbean
  • Author(s): Jacob Gelt Dekker
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From Columbus to the present day

After a life-changing diagnosis, Dutch entrepreneur Jacob Gelt Dekker decides to take a step into the unknown. Setting sail from his home in Key West, he embarks on an odyssey around the Caribbean islands, navigating treacherous waters and nations...

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