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The Eloquence of Desire

The Eloquence of Desire
  • Author(s): Amanda Sington-Williams
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“I have just stumbled onto the nicest surprise” – Susan Abraham “an atmospheric novel with thought provoking themes” – Bookish Magpie “A good read” – Book Pleasures “For those who know me, giving a book a 5 is something...

The Embalmer

The Embalmer
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Current day

Has the ancient Egyptian cult of immortality resurfaced in Brighton? When a freshly-mummified body is discovered at the Brighton Museum of Natural History, Detective Francis Sullivan is at a loss to identify the desiccated woman. But as Egyptian burial...

The Embroiderer

The Embroiderer
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gauci
  • Location(s): Greece, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19thc and 20thc

From the Jacket: The Embroiderer Set against the mosques and minarets of Asia Minor and the ruins of ancient Athens, The Embroiderer is a gripping saga of love and loss, hope and despair, and of the extraordinary courage of...

The Emperor of Ocean Park

The Emperor of Ocean Park
  • Author(s): Stephen L Carter
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny – a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice has gone terribly wrong. An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same...

The Emperor’s Babe

The Emperor’s Babe
  • Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 211 AD

A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity — sassy, razor-sharp and transformative. Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She’s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy...

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat
  • Author(s): Ryszard Kapuściński
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the...

The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
  • Author(s): Jeffery Deaver
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The third of the bestselling Lincoln Rhyme series sends the detective deep into North Carolina on the trail of a desperate kidnapper… You’ve followed a killer into a swamp Hopefully you’ll find him before he gets to his next...

The Empty Quarter

The Empty Quarter
  • Author(s): David L Robbins
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Every member of the Special Ops US Air Force pararescue jumpers, the PJs, swears by the motto “That Others May Live.” A top-secret mission to save a kidnapped Saudi princess will put that oath to the ultimate test. With...

The Empty Safe Mystery

The Empty Safe Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Wexford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The manager of a building society is found dead in her flat above the premises in the Irish county town of Wexford. DI Vikki Kirkby investigates. Not only has the woman been murdered, the safe has been opened and...

The Empusium

The Empusium
  • Author(s): Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
  • Location(s): Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set in former Silesia. In September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and...

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