- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
ow do you catch a man who is never the same man twice? That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, a top-rated international thriller novel and the first book in The Orphan Trilogy. An orphan grows up...
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
“There is no problem so great it cannot be solved by a cup of bush tea.” The prolific Alexander McCall Smith is the undisputed king of cosy crime, the antithesis of the much-touted Tartan Noir movement. His Precious Ramotswe...
- Location(s): Sheffield
- Era(s): 1970s/1980s
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading...
- Location(s): England, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
This book starts off with Elise in her Austrian days, in Vienna, having a lovely time in the early thirties. Swiftly the story picks up at Tyneford House, a mansion on the south coast of Englan, where she is...
The October Horse (Masters of Rome – 6)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
- Location(s): Germany, Poland, Siberia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1930s 1940s
This is an epic wartime romance which sees a headstrong young woman face hardship, danger and dilemmas as the forces of history sweep her across continents, while two men compete to claim her heart.It is suitable for fans of...
- Location(s): Central Asia, Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2006 onwards
Opening in 2006 after ten years in the making, British Petroleum s $4 billion pipeline, running from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, has become an icon of globalization. Over a thousand miles long, it weaves a route around...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal:...
- Location(s): North America, South America
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 1900s
The Old Patagonian Expresstells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip, via pretty...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world – a landscape of the feet and the mind,...
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