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The Tree

The Tree
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

The tree of liberty sprouted well before the Revolution started… Abe is haunted by the sudden loss of both of his parents. Left to manage a New-Hampshire time grant with only his eccentric aunt to guide him, he finds...

The Tree Of Man

The Tree Of Man
  • Author(s): Patrick White
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife...

The Tree Where Man Was Born

The Tree Where Man Was Born
  • Author(s): Peter Matthiessen
  • Location(s): Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1972

A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and...

The Tree with No Name

The Tree with No Name
  • Author(s): Drago Jančar
  • Location(s): Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940 - 2000

A diary recounting four decades’ worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river–the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their...

The Trees

The Trees
  • Author(s): Percival Everett
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary, looking back

The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local...

The Trial

The Trial
  • Author(s): Jo Spain
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 2014

‘Jo Spain is a sublime storyteller . . . this is a book you won’t want to put down’ JANE CASEY 2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo...

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

The year is 1880, the setting London’s poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London’s dark streets, the sense of time and place...

The Trial of Maximo Bonga

The Trial of Maximo Bonga
  • Author(s): John Harris
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Based on a true story On one of South East Asia’s most remote beaches, a young woman’s body is found. The corrupt local police think they have found the perfect fall guy in Maximo Bonga – cantankerous World War...

The Trials of Lila Dalton

The Trials of Lila Dalton
  • Author(s): L J Shepherd
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lila Dalton finds herself in the middle of a courtroom as the barrister for a man accused of a terrible crime. She has no memories of her life before this moment. Outside, on the strange island where she is...

The Trials of Marjorie Crowe

The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
  • Author(s): C S Robertson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you’re guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, Scotland. The locals put her age at somewhere between 55 and 70. They think she’s divorced or a lifelong spinster; that she used...

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