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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...

The Counterfeit Detective

The Counterfeit Detective
  • Author(s): Simpson Grears
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1900s 1970s

THE COUNTERFEIT DETECTIVE is an epic Gothic literary crime thriller set mostly in Victorian London in 1900 but also in 1970s England, Scotland and the United States. An American professor discovers the diaries of John Ledbury, known as the...

The Country Girls Trilogy

The Country Girls Trilogy
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Edna O’Brien’s first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have...

The Country of the Pointed Firs

The Country of the Pointed Firs
  • Author(s): Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1896

Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs was published in 1896, and it quickly garnered a reputation for its truthfulness and the quality of its writing. Rudyard Kipling described it as ‘immense–it is the very life,’ and...

The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War

The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
  • Author(s): Gioconda Belli
  • Location(s): Nicaragua
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

Lives don’t get much more quixotic or passionately driven than that of the Nicaraguan revolutionary Gioconda Belli. She may have been educated by nuns and dazzled all as a well-heeled society girl, but Gioconda lifted her “guilt of privilege”...

The Couple In The Cabin

The Couple In The Cabin
  • Author(s): Daniel Hurst
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They’ll do anything to get out. She’ll do anything to keep them in. When happily married Grace comes home early one night and catches her husband, Dominic, with another woman in the cabin at the bottom of their garden,...

The Courtesan, Her Lover and I

The Courtesan, Her Lover and I
  • Author(s): Tarana Husain Khan
  • Location(s): Rampur
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century / Contemporary

TWO WOMEN WRITERS. TWO CENTURIES. A CREATIVE KINSHIP. In the royal courts of nineteenth-century Rampur, courtesan-poet Munni Bai Hijab captivates the legendary Urdu poet Dagh Dehlvi, who immortalizes her in his verses while inadvertently eclipsing her voice. More than...

The Courting of Marcus Dupree

The Courting of Marcus Dupree
  • Author(s): Willie Morris
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years,...

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