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Black Cake

Black Cake
  • Author(s): Charmaine Wilkerson
  • Location(s): Caribbean, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s

We can’t go to the island, Bryon. We don’t really know what we’re getting into . . .’ Eleanor Bennett won’t let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children – Byron...

Black Chalk

Black Chalk
  • Author(s): Christopher J Yates
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A compulsively readable psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University, in which a group of six students play an elaborate game of dares and consequences, with tragic results One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was...

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
  • Author(s): Rebecca West
  • Location(s): Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

First published in 1942, Rebecca West’s epic masterpiece is widely regarded as the most illuminating book to have been written on the former state of Yugoslavia. It is a work of enduring value that remains essential for anyone attempting...

Black Maps

Black Maps
  • Author(s): Peter Spiegelman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Years after the personal tragedy that scarred his life, Private Investigator John March lives a twilight existence in Manhattan. He is tough and ruthlessly efficient in his professional life, yet introspective and vulnerable when it comes to his relationships...

Black Rabbit Hall

Black Rabbit Hall
  • Author(s): Eve Chase
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary, back to 1960s

The four Alton children spend the hot Cornish summer playing on sun-baked lawns or building dens in the dark woods. Endless days of laughter and fun. But no one foresees the storm that brings it all to a tragic...

Black Rock

Black Rock
  • Author(s): Amanda Smyth
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Celia’s mother died bringing her into the world – when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi’s second husband Roman, a man so...

Black Skies

Black Skies
  • Author(s): Arnaldur Indridason
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a ‘death mask’, once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves, and he has revenge in mind. Meanwhile,...

Black Star Nairobi

Black Star Nairobi
  • Author(s): Mukoma Wa Ngugi
  • Location(s): Nairobi
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a bomb explodes in a downtown Nairobi hotel, private detectives Ishmael and Odhiambo quickly make the connection to a murder case they’re investigating. It’s the first big break for their new detective agency, Black Star, formed after they...

Black Sun, Red Moon

Black Sun, Red Moon
  • Author(s): Rory Marron
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos...

Blackberry Wine

Blackberry Wine
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jay Mackintosh has the privilege of spending time with Jackapple Joe who introduces him to the simple wisdom and magic of life in the country, in Kirby Monckton. Joe disappears one Autumn without trace and Jay makes an impulse...

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