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The Cut Line

The Cut Line
  • Author(s): Carolina Pihelgas, Darcy Hurford (translator)
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Estonia

In the dog days of an Estonian summer, Liine flees to the countryside to put a conclusive end to her toxic 14-year relationship. She undergoes every stage of separation in a lone farmstead amid forests. Physical labor and gardening...

The Cut Out Girl

The Cut Out Girl
  • Author(s): Bart van Es
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Little Lien wasn’t taken from her Jewish parents – she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only...

The Cutting

The Cutting
  • Author(s): James Hayman
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape a dark past: both the ex-wife who’d left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a hero cop gone bad....

The Cutting Place

The Cutting Place
  • Author(s): Jane Casey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The gripping new thriller from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author, shortlisted for the Irish Crime Book Awards 2020. You’ve got to be in the club to know the truth. Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs,...

The Cypress Maze

The Cypress Maze
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943 / 2015

In this haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a wartime secret to protect the innocent. Now, could telling it set her free? Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice’s dream of an...

The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran

The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran
  • Author(s): Kamin Mohammadi
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in...

The Cypriot

The Cypriot
  • Author(s): Andreas Koumi
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A highly topical love story, with Muslim/Christian conflict at its heart; a vivid, human evocation of a political situation that, decades on, is returning to the news as one of the EU’s greatest challenges. The Cypriot is a powerful...

The Cypriot Agent

The Cypriot Agent
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Famagusta, Beirut, Istanbul (Constantinople), Novorossiysk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1974

A Cold War novel of foreign intrigue. An intricate thriller of espionage and foreign intrigue, the novel turns on a Cypriot hit man hired by the CIA.

The Dalai Lama’s Cat

The Dalai Lama’s Cat
  • Author(s): David Michie
  • Location(s): Dharamshala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Not so much fly-on-the-wall as cat-on-the-sill, this is the warm-hearted tale of a small kitten rescued from the slums of New Delhi who finds herself in a beautiful sanctuary with sweeping views of the snow-capped Himalayas. In her exotic...

The Dam

The Dam
  • Author(s): David Almond, Levi Pinfold (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A lyrical, captivating and beautiful picture book by Carnegie Medal-winner David Almond, illustrated by Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Levi Pinfold. When a great dam was built by the Kielder Water in Northumberland, the valley below slowly filled with water. But...

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