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The Pyramid

The Pyramid
  • Author(s): William Golding
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where...

The Pyramid Murders

The Pyramid Murders
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Egypt, London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de resistance, a rare ornate...

The Pyramid of Mud

The Pyramid of Mud
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italy’s finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri. It’s been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overwhelming the Inspector’s beloved hometown, sweeping across...

The Queen

The Queen
  • Author(s): Steven James
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

While investigating a double homicide in an isolated northern Wisconsin town, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers uncovers a high-tech conspiracy that twists through long-buried Cold War secrets and targets present-day tensions in the Middle East. In his most explosive...

The Queen of Bloody Everything

The Queen of Bloody Everything
  • Author(s): Joanna Nadin
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

And in that instant I fall in love. Not just with him, though he is the better part of it, but with them both, with the whole scene: the house, the garden, the magazine perfection of it. And I...

The Queen of Dirt Island

The Queen of Dirt Island
  • Author(s): Donal Ryan
  • Location(s): Nenagh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s onwards

The Aylward women are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them – in spite of what neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes – to know that that their...

The Queen of Katwe

The Queen of Katwe
  • Author(s): Tim Crothers
  • Location(s): Kampala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005

PHIONA MUTESI sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona has been out of school most of her life because her mother cannot afford it, so...

The Queen of Kentucky

The Queen of Kentucky
  • Author(s): Alecia Whitaker
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer’s daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She...

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The...

The Queen’s Fool

The Queen’s Fool
  • Author(s): Ally Sherrick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Tudor

A fantastic Tudor adventure from Historical Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. ‘A compulsive read … I love Ally’s writing, she really has a way of making history come alive!’ CELIA REES Cat Sparrow is on the road....

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