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The Cossacks

The Cossacks
  • Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): pre-revolutionary Russia

“The Cossacks” is one of Tolstoy’s greatest works. In this semi-autobiographical work we meet the central character of Olenin, a young man of twenty-four who has yet to make anything of himself in life. Olenin joins the Russian army...

The Cost of Knowing

The Cost of Knowing
  • Author(s): Brittney Morris
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the acclaimed author of SLAY, comes a gripping novel, about brothers, grief, and what it means to be a young Black man in America. For fans of Dear Martin and They Both Die at the End. Sixteen year...

The Cost of Sugar

The Cost of Sugar
  • Author(s): Cynthia McLeod
  • Location(s): Suriname
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

The Cost of Sugar is the historical story of Jewish family planters and their slaves in Suriname. Now a major motion picture, The Cost of Sugar gives an engrossing account of eighteenth century Suriname at the time when the...

The Cottage in a Cornish Cove

The Cottage in a Cornish Cove
  • Author(s): Cass Grafton
  • Location(s): The West Country, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Orphaned as a baby and raised by uncaring relatives, much of Anna Redding’s happiness as a child came from the long summer holidays spent with an elderly family friend, Aunt Meg, in the coastal village of Polkerran. With Aunt...

The Cottage in the Highlands

The Cottage in the Highlands
  • Author(s): Julie Shackman
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The brand new seasonal novel from the author of the bestselling book, A Secret Scottish Escape ‘A charming read full of romance and mystery. Delightful’ Woman’s Weekly When Leonie Baxter finds herself out of a job and out of...

The Cottage of Curiosities

The Cottage of Curiosities
  • Author(s): Celia Anderson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tucked away amongst the winding, cobbled streets of Pengelly in Cornwall, the old stone cottage on Memory Lane is full of secrets. Brimming with trinkets and treasures, there are thousands of stories hidden within its walls. Fifty-four-year-old Grace Clarke...

The Cottage of New Beginnings

The Cottage of New Beginnings
  • Author(s): Suzanne Snow
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One crumbling cottage. One broken heart. A chance to start over? When Annie returns to Thorndale, the village where she spent much of her childhood, she’s looking for a new start. All she wants to do is fix up...

The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine

The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
  • Author(s): Kate Angell, Jennifer Dawson, Sharla Lovelace
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s time for the annual Halloween costume party at the cottage on Pumpkin and Vine, the perfect place to celebrate the pleasures of the season. Guests return to the picturesque B & B year after year to snuggle up...

The Cottage on Wildflower Lane

The Cottage on Wildflower Lane
  • Author(s): Liz Davies
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Esther’s life isn’t perfect (whose is?) – but she’s happy enough living in her little flat with her boyfriend, Josh. But that’s about to change. Bored out of her mind in work, she wishes that something, anything, would happen...

The Cotton Town Girls

The Cotton Town Girls
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Sophia Seddon and Grace Thompson are poles apart – the one a member of the notorious Seddons of Plover Street, the other the vicar’s spoilt only child. But their childhood friendship is revived when they find themselves fighting a...

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