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The Contract

The Contract
  • Author(s): Dwight Kopp
  • Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Zimbabwe’s dictator exploits critical faults in the decaying infrastructure of his own country. Evil reigns unchecked and greed has no limit. But the blood-soaked grass, empty shelves, and unmarked graves birth a new era of African resistance. When political...

The Convalescent Corpse

The Convalescent Corpse
  • Author(s): Nicola Slade
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Edwardian

3 teenage girls start a business and solve a murder in 1918 Hampshire town not unlike Romsey.

The Cook of Castamar

The Cook of Castamar
  • Author(s): Fernando J Muñez, Rahul Bery (translator), Tim Gutteridge (Translator)
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from everyone. HE IS the Duke of Castamar, one of...

The Cook of the Halcyon

The Cook of the Halcyon
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri. Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so...

The Cookbook Collector

The Cookbook Collector
  • Author(s): Allegra Goodman
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century

At the turn of the last century, two sisters are following very different paths. Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CEO of an internet start-up; twenty-three-year-old Jess is a grad student in philosophy, a vegan who rejects the rampant capitalism that...

The Copenhagen Affair

The Copenhagen Affair
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in the capital city of the world’s happiest country, a comedy of manners about depression, the pressures of marriage, and the possibility of falling in love again, from the bestselling author of A House for Happy Mothers. Sanya...

The Cornish Coast Murder

The Cornish Coast Murder
  • Author(s): John Bude
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s (Golden Age)

The Cornish Escape

The Cornish Escape
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to early 20th century

Get swept away along the beautiful Cornish coast, where a love story in a long forgotten diary has the power to change one woman’s life forever. Victoria Langley’s world crumbles when her husband leaves, but she knows exactly where...

The Cornish Guest House

The Cornish Guest House
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new couple have arrived in Tremarnock, but will these glamorous strangers fit into village life? Tremarnock is a small fishing village, crowded with holidaymakers in the summer, but a sleepy Cornish backwater at other times of the year....

The Cornish Hotel by the Sea

The Cornish Hotel by the Sea
  • Author(s): Karen King
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Ellie Truman’s widowed mum is struggling to keep Gwel Teg, the family hotel in Cornwall, afloat. Ellie is determined to do everything in her power to help her, even if that means moving back to the sleepy Cornish village...

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