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Daughters who walk this path

Daughters who walk this path
  • Author(s): Yejide Kilanko
  • Location(s): Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Morayo moves from an idyllic childhood to a harrowing adolescence marked by a shameful secret. She lives in the bosom of a typical family. But troubled cousein, Bros T, moves in and shatters the family dynamic. Each chapter starts...

David

David
  • Author(s): Mary Hoffman
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1500s

Michelangelo’s statue of David is renowned all over the world. Thousands flock to Florence to admire the artistry behind this Renaissance masterpiece, and to admire the beauty of the human form captured in the marble. But the identity of...

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
  • Author(s): Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (translator)
  • Location(s): Jimbocho
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s...

Dazzling

Dazzling
  • Author(s): Chikodili Emelumadu
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fairy Tales, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Soon you will become the thing all other beasts fear. Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure’s daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back – but...

De Niro’s Game

De Niro’s Game
  • Author(s): Rawi Hage
  • Location(s): Beirut, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn Beirut. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must choose their futures: to remain in the exhausted, corrupt city of their birth,...

Dead Cold

Dead Cold
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It’s a time of peace and goodwill – until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally...

Dead Ground

Dead Ground
  • Author(s): Graham Hurley
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1936 and WW2

No. 9 in the Spoils of War series A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley. 1936. Anglo-Breton translator...

Dead Man’s Footsteps

Dead Man’s Footsteps
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else’s perfume, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now,...

Dead Man’s Grip (Roy Grace 7)

Dead Man’s Grip (Roy Grace 7)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two...

Dead Men

Dead Men
  • Author(s): Richard Pierce
  • Location(s): Antarctica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1912 onwards

A century after Scott’s doomed expedition, one woman ventures under the Antarctic ice the discovery of Captain Scott’s body in the Antarctic in 1912 started a global obsession with him as a man and an explorer. But a central...

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