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Crow Moon

Crow Moon
  • Author(s): Suzy Aspley
  • Location(s): The Trossachs
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the crow moon rises, the darkness is unleashed… Martha Strangeways is struggling to find purpose in her life, after giving up her career as an investigative reporter when her young twins died in a house fire. Overwhelmed by...

Cuba and the Night

Cuba and the Night
  • Author(s): Pico Iyer
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

This is the love story between an international photojournalist and a young Cuban woman, as seen through the photographer’s eyes, the complexities of a relationship in the broadest sense, and life in Cuba.

Culture Shock and Canapés

Culture Shock and Canapés
  • Author(s): Pamela O'Cuneen
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

A young Australian working girl from London struggles to adapt to diplomatic life among the royal courtiers of Swaziland, in post-independence Zimbabwe and in Angola amid the gunfire of the civil war. She accompanies her husband, the striding KJ,...

Cursed

Cursed
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy, where she has recently been grieving for her dead father, her husband discovers that her life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no...

Cycling Home from Siberia

Cycling Home from Siberia
  • Author(s): Rob Lilwall
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The epic journey, 35,000 miles from Siberia to London on a bike. Beautifully and thoughtfully written.

Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz

Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz
  • Author(s): Bill Moody
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

The year is 1968. The liberal reforms of Czechoslovakia’s new leader, Alexander Dubcek, have outraged the Kremlin and now, 250,000 Warsaw Pact forces are amassed on the borders. For American intelligence, the situation is worsened when their prime source,...

D Is For Death

D Is For Death
  • Author(s): Harriet F Townson
  • Location(s): The West End
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1935

1935. Dora’son the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage. But unluckily for her, Dora’s fiance is more persistent than most and follows. As...

Daddy’s Girl

Daddy’s Girl
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Friday evening. A deserted street below Table Mountain. A six-year-old ballerina waits alone for her mother to fetch her. Then an unmarked car approaches, and she is gone. With no trace of where, or why she’s been abducted, suspicion...

Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain
  • Author(s): Maggie Ritchie
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women’s eventful lives...

Daisy Darker

Daisy Darker
  • Author(s): Alice Feeney
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daisy Darker’s family were as dark as dark can be, when one of them died all of them lied and pretended not to see . . . Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her eightieth birthday....

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