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Clapham LIghts

Clapham LIghts
  • Author(s): Tom Canty
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s/Modern

Craig Tennant hates his job as an estate agent, loves a girl who has a boyfriend and lives in a London flat he can’t afford with a university friend he wishes he’d never met. That friend is Mark Hunter,...

Claude and Camille –

Claude and Camille –
  • Author(s): Stephanie Cowell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father’s will, and...

Claws of the Cat

Claws of the Cat
  • Author(s): Susan Spann
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

When a samurai is brutally murdered in a Kyoto teahouse, master ninja Hiro has no desire to get involved. But the beautiful entertainer accused of the crime enlists the help of Father Mateo, the Portuguese Jesuit priest who Hiro...

Clever Girl

Clever Girl
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

It follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the mysterious shallows of her middle age. The story is full of drama – violent...

Climbing Days

Climbing Days
  • Author(s): Dan Richards
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to early 20th Century

In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained mysterious to Dan, but the chance...

Cloth Girl

Cloth Girl
  • Author(s): Marilyn Heward Mills
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Matilda Quartey is fourteen years old when sophisticated black Gold Coast lawyer, Robert Bannerman, sets eyes on her and resolves to take her as his second wife. For Julie, his first wife, this is a colossal slap in the...

Cloudland

Cloudland
  • Author(s): Joseph Olshan
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

While out walking during an early spring thaw, Catherine Winslow discovers the body of a woman leaning against an apple tree. From the corpse’s pink parka, Winslow recognizes her as the latest victim of a serial killer, a woman...

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness
  • Author(s): Alexandra Fuller
  • Location(s): East Africa, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author’s mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its...

Coconuts and Wonderbras

Coconuts and Wonderbras
  • Author(s): Lynda Renham
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Literary agent Libby Holmes is desperate for her boyfriend, Toby, to propose to her and will do anything for him and if that means dieting for England then she’ll have a go. However, when Libby’s boss introduces her to...

Codex

Codex
  • Author(s): Adrian Dawson
  • Location(s): Europe, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When a bomb explodes aboard Flight 320 killing everyone onboard, Jack Bernstein chess Grandmaster turned IT entrepreneur is informed that his only daughter Lara, missing for the past 3 years, was onboard and making her way home. Jack believes...

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