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The Palazzo

The Palazzo
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Successful beauty entrepreneur Vivi Savidge is about to celebrate her fortieth birthday at the Palazzo Stellina, a historic former convent in the foothills of the Italian Alps. Vivi’s little sister is flying in from Brisbane with her sixteen-year-old twins...

The Pale House

The Pale House
  • Author(s): Luke McCallin
  • Location(s): Balkans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

A Gregor Reinhardt Novel Book 2 German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has just been reassigned to the Feldjaegerkorps – a new branch of the military police with far-reaching powers. His position separates him from the friends and allies...

The Pallampur Predicament

The Pallampur Predicament
  • Author(s): Brian Stoddart
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s India

The murder of a local rajah sees Superintendent Chris Le Fanu and his assistant, Muhammad Habubullah encounter local intrigue as well as British secret agents as they attempt to find the culprits. As they do so, they find the...

The Palm House

The Palm House
  • Author(s): Tarek Eltayeb
  • Location(s): The Sudan, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fortunes begin to change when...

The Palm House

The Palm House
  • Author(s): Gwendoline Riley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Laura and Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions,...

The Palm-Wine Drinkard

The Palm-Wine Drinkard
  • Author(s): Amos Tutuola
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): folktale

When Amos Tutuola’s first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of...

The Palma Foundation

The Palma Foundation
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Location(s): Palma de Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To the outside world, the Palma Foundation is a charitable and benevolent business network formed in the post Franco era by four Mallorcan businessmen. However, with growing suspicion of bribery and corruption, DI Lori Garcia is tasked with investigating...

The Panama Hat Trail

The Panama Hat Trail
  • Author(s): Tom Miller
  • Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Critically acclaimed author Tom Miller reveals the making and marketing of one Panama hat, from the straw fields of Ecuador’s coastal lowland to a hat shop in Southern California. Along the way, the hat becomes a literary device allowing...

The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London

The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London
  • Author(s): Henry Chebaane
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Montreal, Ontario, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1864 - 2024

WILL HER STORY CHANGE HISTORY? Alex Campbell is a Canadian musician struggling with a conflicted identity, a tragic past and repressed supernatural abilities. Orphaned at a young age, life was never easy on her and is about to get...

The Paninis of Pompeii

The Paninis of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Andy Stanton
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The first in a brand new series from the fevered imagination of the award-winning, bestselling author of MR GUM. Welcome to the last days of Pompeii as you’ve NEVER imagined them before! Join fart-trader Caecilius, his wife, Vesuvius, and...

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