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The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides
  • Author(s): Pat Conroy
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pat Conroy’s inspired masterpiece relates the dark and violent chronicle of an astounding family: the Wingos of Colleton, South Carolina. No reader will forget them. And no reader can remain untouched by their story. All Wingos share one heritage...

The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea
  • Author(s): Rachel Isadora
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When a prince sets out to find a princess to marry, he soon discovers this is not a simple task. There is no shortage of so-called princesses, but how can he tell whether or not they are what they...

The Princess of 72nd Street

The Princess of 72nd Street
  • Author(s): Elaine Kraf
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

An unforgettable portrait of a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms ‘I don’t need LSD for things to look pretty.’ Ellen is an artist living alone on New York in the...

The Princess of Las Vegas

The Princess of Las Vegas
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE PRINCESS IS FAKE. THE MURDERS ARE REAL – From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, a Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of...

The Prisoner of Heaven

The Prisoner of Heaven
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 3 THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel...

The Private Island

The Private Island
  • Author(s): Ali Lowe
  • Location(s): Fiji
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

New Year’s Eve, Loloma Island, Fiji. At one of the most exclusive island resorts in the Pacific ocean, the champagne is poured, the fireworks are ready, and the countdown to new year is just beginning. It’s set to be...

The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
  • Author(s): Okechukwu Nzelu
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you begin to find yourself when you only know half of who you are? As Nnenna Maloney approaches womanhood she longs to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her once close and tender relationship with her mother, Joanie,...

The Prize

The Prize
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

The biggest heroes of the Revolution were sometimes unsung… Caleb’s father is serving with Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys as the long-anticipated open war against the British rages up and down the length of Lake Champlain. Between his duties...

The Prodigal Spy

The Prodigal Spy
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

It is 1950 and communists are being hunted across America. When Walter Kotlar is accused of being a spy by the House Un-American Activities Committee, his young son Nick destroys a piece of evidence only he knows about. But...

The Professional

The Professional
  • Author(s): Ashok Ferrey
  • Location(s): Colombo, London, North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

It is a universally acknowledged truth that an immigrant in England must in want of a visa. In 1980s London, young Sri Lankan Chamath, recently down from Oxford with a degree in Maths, struggles to reconcile himself to the...

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