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The Buried Crown

The Buried Crown
  • Author(s): Ally Sherrick
  • Location(s): London, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2

An exciting World War II adventure from acclaimed author Ally Sherrick – blending her trademark rip-roaring historical storytelling with mythology and magic! It’s World War II and Britain is on the brink of invasion. Londoner George has been sent...

The Burning Chambers

The Burning Chambers
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): Carcassone, Toulouse
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th century

Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse’s The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyalties . . . Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives...

The Burning House

The Burning House
  • Author(s): Neil Spring
  • Location(s): Loch Ness
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness has remained empty for years. Its dark history and rumours of hauntings – and worse – have scared all prospective buyers away. But estate agent Clara desperately needs to make this...

The Burning Land

The Burning Land
  • Author(s): George Alagiah
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘It was never meant to be like this. Sabotage, yes. Propaganda, yes. All of that and more – but not this. Not murder.’ As greed and corruption taint the optimism of a nation, the political becomes deeply personal for...

The Burning Library

The Burning Library
  • Author(s): Gilly Macmillan
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

For over a century two rival organisations of women have gone to deadly lengths to secure a precious scrap of fraying embroidery in the hopes of finding the original medieval manuscript from which it was torn. There’s the Order...

The Burning Sands

The Burning Sands
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 17th century Cornwall

Can an old tavern’s secrets free two women from their pasts? After a year, Olivia Griffin still drowns in grief from losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident. To cope with his death, she loses herself in her...

The Burnings

The Burnings
  • Author(s): Julian Lees
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

With discovery comes certain death… When Australian Jillian Parker’s scorched remains are discovered in her burnt-out car Ruud Pujasumarta and his team are brought in to investigate what appears at first to be a routine homicide. But when Canadian...

The Burnings

The Burnings
  • Author(s): Naomi Kelsey
  • Location(s): North Berwick
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1580s

Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries “witch”, no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of...

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
  • Author(s): Etgar Keret
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his...

The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy
  • Author(s): Patrick McCabe
  • Location(s): County Monaghan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize. When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account...

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