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Blue

Blue
  • Author(s): Lisa Glass
  • Location(s): Newquay
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Surfing is sixteen-year-old Iris’s world, and when the ultra-talented Zeke walks into her life, it soon becomes her passion. Over one amazing summer, as she is drawn into his sphere, she experiences love, new friendships, but also loss, with...

Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or so Mother Says)

Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or so Mother Says)
  • Author(s): Colette Kebell
  • Location(s): Berkshire, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

GiGi (well, Griselda Griswald actually, but everybody calls her GiGi) is a woman with a mission: to help people improve the way they look, increase their self-esteem, and eventually, make them happier people. Being a personal shopper is a...

Blue Blood

Blue Blood
  • Author(s): Sara Blaedel
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In an idyllic neighbourhood of Copenhagen, a young woman, Susanne Hansson, is discovered in her apartment bound and gagged, the victim of an extraordinarily brutal rape attack. Detective Inspector Louise Rick soon learns that Susanne met the rapist on...

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold
  • Author(s): Daniel Metcalfe
  • Location(s): Angola
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Since the end of its crippling 27-year civil war over a decade ago, Angola has changed almost beyond recognition. An oil-fuelled bonanza has brought about massive foreign investment and a fabulously wealthy new elite, making its capital, Luanda, the...

Blue Lightening (Shetland #4)

Blue Lightening (Shetland #4)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Fair Isle
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

With the autumn storms raging, Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder . . . A woman’s body is discovered at...

Blue Shoes and Happiness

Blue Shoes and Happiness
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Another novel in the series of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, novels set in Botswana. Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective...

Blue Sisters

Blue Sisters
  • Author(s): Coco Mellors
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...

Blueback: a Fable for All Ages

Blueback: a Fable for All Ages
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

From birth Abel lives by, from and for the sea. Set in Western Australia, Abel dives and befriends a grouper fish living in a cove and he comes to rely on the advice from the fish, whom he calls...

Blurred

Blurred
  • Author(s): Iris Wolff, Ruth Martin (translator)
  • Location(s): Romania
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s

In rural Transylvania, a young wife fearing for her unborn child takes a sleigh ride through all-enveloping snow. BLURRED tells the story of that child, Samuel, through the voices of those who know him. The boy grows up behind...

Body Count

Body Count
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Any bloody death will lead Inspectors Çetin Ikmen and Mehmet Süleyman out onto the dark streets of Istanbul. On 21 January, a half-decapitated corpse in the poor multicultural district of Tarlabasi poses a particularly frustrating and gruesome mystery. But...

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