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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.

The Pirates of Pompeii

The Pirates of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Caroline Lawrence
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Children, Adventure
  • Era(s): 79AD

It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl,...

The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World

The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
  • Author(s): Jay Bahadur
  • Location(s): Somalia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a year infiltrating their lives. For centuries, stories of pirates have captured...

The Pisces

The Pisces
  • Author(s): Melissa Broder
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today. Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she...

The Pit and the Passion: Murder at the Ghost Hotel

The Pit and the Passion: Murder at the Ghost Hotel
  • Author(s): M S Spencer
  • Location(s): Longboat Key
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At midnight, in the darkness of a deserted hotel, comes a scream and a splash. Eighty-five years later, workmen uncover a skeleton in an old elevator shaft. Who is it, and how did it get there? To find out,...

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