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The Camino

The Camino
  • Author(s): Anya Niewierra, Eileen Stevens (Translator)
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the Netherlands’s most popular crime writer, a gripping literary thriller about a widow who retraces her husband’s final journey along the Camino de Santiago to uncover the truth about his death. Forty-four-year-old chocolatier Lotte Bonnet has been living...

The Camino de Santiago: One Wonderful Walk

The Camino de Santiago: One Wonderful Walk
  • Author(s): Shannon O'Gorman
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): present

Every year, over three hundred thousand people complete the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela. Part memoir, part history, ( and part attempt at humour), The Camino de Santiago: One Wanderful...

The Camper’s Friend: A Miscellany of Wit and Wisdom

The Camper’s Friend: A Miscellany of Wit and Wisdom
  • Author(s): Phoebe Smith
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

‘It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles against the prevailing winds, for the opportunity to rain on a tent’ Dave Barry. Whether you enjoy sleeping under canvas, underneath the stars, or prefer a bit of...

The Campervan Detectives

The Campervan Detectives
  • Author(s): Maeve Haran
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Campervan Detective Mystery Book 1) Fearless, feisty and at the wheel of her bright orange campervan, newly-single Sadie is about to enter a new era… as a detective?! It’s never too late for a second chance, and when...

The Canal House

The Canal House
  • Author(s): Mark Lee
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he’s seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins to...

The Canary Keeper

The Canary Keeper
  • Author(s): Clare Carson
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. Talk soon spreads of the...

The Candle Man

The Candle Man
  • Author(s): Alex Scarrow
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1912 looking back to 1880s

Jack the Ripper’s London…an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic…and a series of murders that covers two decades. 1912. Locked in an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic, a mysterious man tells a young girl his life...

The Canyon Cuts Both Ways (Hidden Stories)

The Canyon Cuts Both Ways (Hidden Stories)
  • Author(s): Dan T Cox
  • Location(s): Oregon, North Santiam Canyon
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The size of the sky in the place you’re from can have much to do with how you view the world, and often how you choose to conduct yourself in that world. Such is the case for people living...

The Cape Raider

The Cape Raider
  • Author(s): Justin Fox
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): World War II

This World War II novel evokes the landscapes and seascapes of Cape Town, South Africa. Scarred – physically and emotionally – by the brutal warfare at Dunkirk Jack Pembroke decides to leave his home in England to join his...

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...

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