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The Broken River

The Broken River
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A masterclass of small-town mystery and jaw-dropping twists from Chris Hammer, the international bestselling author of Scrublands, The Times Crime Book of the Year 2023 Dead Man’s Creek and Crime Book of the Month (January 2024) Cover the Bones....

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): Balkans, Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of...

The Broken Vow

The Broken Vow
  • Author(s): Luisa A Jones
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWI

In spring 1915, the spoiled and self-centred nineteen year-old Charlotte Fitznorton stands to have her hopes of a glittering marriage dashed when her fiancé Eustace is sent home from the front suffering from a mysterious new condition: shell-shock. Her...

The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme Book 8)

The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme Book 8)
  • Author(s): Jeffery Deaver
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Companies know everything about you. So does he. He knows you, better than you even know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your...

The Bronze Box

The Bronze Box
  • Author(s): Amy C Fitzjohn
  • Location(s): Bristol, Istanbul (Constantinople), Varna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern and recent past

An ancient artefact is stolen, an archaeologist is killed. Dr Sasha Blake is recruited by a covert organisation, The Agency, to find the truth before the Bronze Box falls into the hands of an International criminal known only as...

The Brookwood Boys

The Brookwood Boys
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW1 / WW2 / Present

Can the dead talk to the living? Tennessee soldier Maurice ‘Mouse’ Forsyth has been watching over Brookwood Cemetery since his untimely death in 1917. For over a hundred lonely years, he has become the caretaker of lost souls, welcoming...

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
  • Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons–the impulsive and sensual Dmitri;...

The Brothers Lionheart

The Brothers Lionheart
  • Author(s): Astrid Lindgren, Ilon Wikland (illustrator), Joan Tate (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Children, In Translation
  • Era(s): N/A

The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta) is a children’s fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the autumn of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy...

The Brutal Telling

The Brutal Telling
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines for the fifth book in Louise Penny’s award-winning and critically revered mystery series Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is...

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
  • Author(s): Anna Bell
  • Location(s): Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A hilarious new romantic comedy for fans of Lindsey Kelk and Jane Costello from Anna Bell, the bestselling author of Don’t Tell the Groom. Abi’s barely left her bed since Joseph, the love of her life, dumped her, saying...

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