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The Crow Eaters

The Crow Eaters
  • Author(s): Bapsi Sidhwa
  • Location(s): Lahore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): late 19th century

Seeking fortune and opportunity, Faredoon ‘Freddy’ Junglewalla and his family – his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and burdensome mother-in-law – move from their ancestral village in rural India to the bustling metropolis of Lahore. Welcomed by the small but...

The Crow Girl

The Crow Girl
  • Author(s): Erik Axl Sund
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It starts with just one body – the hands bound, the skin covered in marks. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible, despite opposition from her superiors. When two more bodies are discovered, it...

The Crow Road

The Crow Road
  • Author(s): Iain Banks
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A story full of wonderful characters’ ‘It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always...

The Crow: Temple of Night

The Crow: Temple of Night
  • Author(s): S P Somtow
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The Eternal One At our human limits, when we’ve gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and...

The Crown’s Game

The Crown’s Game
  • Author(s): Evelyn Skye
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Vika Andreyev can summon the snow and turn ash into gold.Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air.They are enchanters the only two in Russia and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening,...

The Crown, the Tiger, and the Curious Case of the Forty Elephants

The Crown, the Tiger, and the Curious Case of the Forty Elephants
  • Author(s): David Fribbins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

In the beginning, Victoria wanted to be King. Following an uncomfortable discussion with her parents about the birds and the bees, Victoria decided that she wanted to be Queen. And so began the sociopathic journey toward the British throne...

The Cruel Way

The Cruel Way
  • Author(s): Ella K Maillart
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Central Asia, Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939

In 1939, adventurer and writer Ella Maillart set off on an epic drive from Geneva to Kabul, accompanied by journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who later became an antifascist and lesbian icon. The two women travelled partly to escape...

The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To The Legendary City Of Timbuktu

The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To The Legendary City Of Timbuktu
  • Author(s): Kira Salak
  • Location(s): Mali, Timbuktu
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception.’ Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Ségou to Timbuktu –...

The Cruellest Month

The Cruellest Month
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s Easter, and on a glorious spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead… When C. I. Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec arrives the next morning, he faces...

The Crusaders

The Crusaders
  • Author(s): Richard T Kelly
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is set in Newcastle in 1996 and follows a young Anglican clergyman who returns to his native North East to plant a new church in a deprived area and the interesting characters he meets in the process. As...

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