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Chopsticks

Chopsticks
  • Author(s): John Berkeley
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Children

On a restaurant on a boat, in faraway Hong Kong, lives a little mouse. This enchanting story tells of his adventures when, one New Year’s night, he magics a carved wooden dragon into life and together they fly through...

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Christ Stopped at Eboli
  • Author(s): Carlo Levi
  • Location(s): Aliano
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

‘We’re not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.’ Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by...

Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe

Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

“The scent of cinnamon, orange peel and ginger perfumed the air, with a strong undercurrent of coffee. Outside the rain was battering against the large windows of the eau-de-nil-painted exterior of the Cupcake Café, tucked into a little grey...

Christmas at Tiffany’s

Christmas at Tiffany’s
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she...

Christmas on Fifth Avenue

Christmas on Fifth Avenue
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Evie Green’s Christmas dream turns into a nightmare when a viral video makes her the laughing stock of the internet. But then a 5 star hotel sees a PR opportunity and invites her to New York for a Christmas...

Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #8)

Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #8)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943

This will be a Christmas to remember for the railway girls. . . Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts, she is desperate to return...

Cinnamon Kiss

Cinnamon Kiss
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is the Summer of Love, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. it’s further outside the law than Easy has ever travelled, but his daughter needs medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can borrow...

Circe

Circe
  • Author(s): Madeline Miller
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 700s BC

Chosen as must-read book of 2018 by the Guardian, i, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express and Stylist In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither...

Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain
  • Author(s): Cormac McCarthy
  • Location(s): New Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

On a Texan ranch, soon after the second world war, a group of solitary, inarticulately lonely men gathers to work animals as the sun sets for good on the mythic American West. All of these men nurse losses both...

City of Bohane

City of Bohane
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 2053

Set in 2053 in Sligo/Galway/Limerick. The binding story here is about love. Two men, one woman, a shared place. Bohane itself is separated by class, tribe, vision. One of the men is Logan Hartnett, who runs the Fancy, the...

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