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The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book
  • Author(s): Sei Shōnagon, Arthur Waley (Translator)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 10th Century

Japan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the moment, having no interest in...

The Pilot’s Daughter

The Pilot’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Audrey J Cole
  • Location(s): Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporar

Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu. Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago. A thousand times she has told herself to...

The Pink Elephants

The Pink Elephants
  • Author(s): P J Skinner
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 1990's

Problems are mounting in the Masaibu project – Can Sam Harris solve them all or will she have to choose? Geologist Sam Harris gets a call in the middle of the night that takes her to the Masaibu project...

THE PIPER’S CHILDREN

THE PIPER’S CHILDREN
  • Author(s): Iain Henn
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A baffling mystery sets an FBI agent on a dangerous path… Park rangers are puzzled when a child is found wandering alone in the middle of a forest near Seattle. Stranger still, he speaks a peculiar language that sounds...

The Piper’s Lament

The Piper’s Lament
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Pakistan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this explosive thriller, Ridge Walker is plunged into an exotic world, 4000 miles away in the humid hills of Northern Pakistan. During his daring quest to rescue a friend he is held captive by merciless terrorists and with...

The Piper’s Promise

The Piper’s Promise
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When his best friend Thad is arrested for a series of murders he didn’t commit on the wrong side of the planet, the young Scottish adventurer, Ridge Walker, must find the real killer in order to prove his innocence....

The Piranhas

The Piranhas
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the ‘Paranze’, the ‘Children’s Gangs’, groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or playing Call of Duty on their PlayStations and patrolling the streets armed with...

The Pirate

The Pirate
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga, Balearic Islands (Illes Balears)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 11th century

Early one morning, the ambitious pirate, al-Awar, makes a lightning raid on the shipyard in Málaga and kidnaps Bakr, a master shipbuilder. Before anyone realises, he and two of his workmen have disappeared. No-one has any idea why the...

The Pirate Queen and the Half-Plucked Chicken

The Pirate Queen and the Half-Plucked Chicken
  • Author(s): Christopher Stevens
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Adventure
  • Era(s): Modern day

Whilst cleaning out a drawer, Charlie and Lizzie find a treasure map which has remained hidden for centuries. But the secret gets out, and they arrive in the Caribbean with their shady adversaries, who will stop at nothing, hot...

The Pirate’s Son

The Pirate’s Son
  • Author(s): Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

When fourteen-year-old Nathan’s father dies, leaving him penniless, Tamo, the son of a famous pirate, invites him and his sister Maud on a fabulous and dangerous trip to Madagascar.

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