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Conversations with Spirits

Conversations with Spirits
  • Author(s): E O Higgins
  • Location(s): Broadstairs
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

December, 1917. The Great War is rampaging through Europe – yet Trelawney Hart has scarcely noticed. The arch-sceptic and former child prodigy has lost his way and now ekes out a lonely existence, taking his only comfort from the...

Copenhagen Noir

Copenhagen Noir
  • Author(s): Bo Tao Michaelis
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

An anthology of stories under the editorship of Bo Tao Michaelis set in Copenhagen

Copper Kingdom

Copper Kingdom
  • Author(s): Iris Gower
  • Location(s): Swansea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

COPPER KINGDOM is set at the turn of the century in the South Wales town of Sweyn’s Eye – the old name for Swansea, where Iris Gower has lived all her life. The story centres around two families and...

Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
  • Author(s): Peter Hessler
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In his hire car from Beijing, on the understanding he will not leave the city, he gets as far as Mongolia. This is the book of his observations, his understanding of the political system and what he observes and...

Cousins

Cousins
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets....

Cragside

Cragside
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Are you afraid of the dark..? After his climactic battle with notorious serial killer The Hacker, DCI Ryan is spending the summer with his fiancée within the grounds of Cragside, a spectacular Bavarian-style mansion surrounded by acres of woodland....

Crazy River

Crazy River
  • Author(s): Richard Grant
  • Location(s): Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his trademark recklessness and curiosity into Africa. Setting out...

Crimson Shore

Crimson Shore
  • Author(s): Gillian E Hamer
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A half-naked woman dead in a ditch. A disappearing pathologist. A teenager run off the road. For a peaceful island, Anglesey is experiencing abnormal levels of crime. What’s the connection? DS Dara Brennan has women problems. His boss, Amanda...

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
  • Author(s): Tom Franklin
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Recent

Fictional town Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas’s one-time boyhood...

Cross Stitch

Cross Stitch
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s, mid 1900s

CLAIRE RANDALL IS LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE. SHE HAS A HUSBAND IN ONE CENTURY – AND A LOVER IN ANOTHER… In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in...

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