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Getaway

Getaway
  • Author(s): Rod Humphris
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Suzana Chesterfield, recently rescued from a gang of slave-traders by Simon Ellice, has come sailing with him to try to work out what to do with her life. And perhaps to find out whether the handsome, selfish, bastard should...

Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica

Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica
  • Author(s): Dorothy Carrington
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

‘Get away from here before you’re completely bewitched and enslaved…’ Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman’s cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. GRANITE ISLAND, much more than a travel book, grew...

Mazzeri: Love and Death in Light and Shadow

Mazzeri: Love and Death in Light and Shadow
  • Author(s): Peter Crawley
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

He had heard the spirits calling his name from the maquis and he had heard their footfalls as they passed by his window in the night. The spirits had summoned him. He could not deny them.’ It is the...

Murder on the Mediterranean

Murder on the Mediterranean
  • Author(s): Alexander Campion
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Escaping the demands of Paris police work, Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier embarks on a well-deserved Mediterranean cruise. But wherever the renowned inspector goes, murder is sure to be close on the horizon. . . On the azure waters off...

Peaks and Bandits

Peaks and Bandits
  • Author(s): Alf Bonnevie Bryn
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): early 20th century

In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set their sights on Corsica to build their experience. The events of this memorable trip form the...

Someone in the Water

Someone in the Water
  • Author(s): Sarah Clarke
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

My only child Lola is turning eighteen soon, but I won’t be with her. For two weeks every year, I hide myself away while I endure the nightmares that haunt me around her birthday. Because she can never know...

The Corsican Woman

The Corsican Woman
  • Author(s): Madge Swindells
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Set on the island of Corsica during the Second World War, The Corsican Woman is a stunning novel of passion and revenge. When the beautiful Sybilia is married off to the son of her town’s leader, she soon discovers...

The Dream Hunters Of Corsica

The Dream Hunters Of Corsica
  • Author(s): Dorothy Carrington
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Mythology
  • Era(s): N/A

The dream-hunters,or mazzeri,are unknown outside Corsica and probably date from pre-historic times.At night they go hunting-or dream they do so-and kill an animal,in whom they recognise a human face.The next day they announcethe death,which always takes place within a...

The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
  • Author(s): James Boswell
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 18th century

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its...

The Secrets We Hide

The Secrets We Hide
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Japan, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 - 2012

The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...

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