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Carnal Acts

Carnal Acts
  • Author(s): Sam Alexander
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

Di Joni Pax, a London murder detective, has been wounded in a raid. She has been transferred up to eh new formed POFNEE in North East England. She and her colleagues are responsible for major crime in rural Northumberland...

Carnevale

Carnevale
  • Author(s): M R Lovric
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

1782. The 13-year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova – the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is...

Carnival Sky

Carnival Sky
  • Author(s): Owen Marshall
  • Location(s): Otago Region
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Beautifully written, brilliantly observed and ultimately optimistic, this novel by one of New Zealand’s finest writers powerfully captures those times when death puts life on hold. Sheff is disillusioned with journalism and, with plans to travel overseas, chucks in...

Carol

Carol
  • Author(s): Patricia Highsmith
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1952

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love....

Carrie

Carrie
  • Author(s): Stephen King
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An exciting reissue of Stephen King’s debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name. Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie...

Casa Rossa

Casa Rossa
  • Author(s): Francesca Marciano
  • Location(s): Puglia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

This second novel by the author of the acclaimed Rules of the Wild is very much in the tradition of The Leopard or The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a compelling story of three generations in twentieth-century Italy. Casa Rossa,...

Case Histories

Case Histories
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem...

Cast-Iron Men

Cast-Iron Men
  • Author(s): Dominic Kearney
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A tense, pacy, violent crime thriller, Cast-Iron Men looks beyond the gloss of Liverpool’s status as City of Culture, as two tough and vulnerable female reporters gun for the big fish who think they run their small pond. Brutal...

Castaway

Castaway
  • Author(s): Lucy Irvine
  • Location(s): Tuin Island
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

Lucy Irvine replied to an advertisement which simply said: ” Writer seeks “wife” for a year on a tropical island.” Most of us would have probably thought about how wonderful it would be to get away for a year,...

Catch Me If You Cannes

Catch Me If You Cannes
  • Author(s): Lisa Dickenson
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The first part in this hilarious four-part romantic comedy, from the author of You Had Me at Merlot and The Twelve Dates of Christmas – winner of the Novelicious Debut of the Year award. Jess has decided it’s time to get out of...

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