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Divorce Islamic Style

Divorce Islamic Style
  • Author(s): Amara Lakhous
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

It’s 2005. The Italian secret service has received news that a group of Muslim immigrants based in the Viale Marconi neighbourhood of Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover...

Doctors Beyond Borders

Doctors Beyond Borders
  • Author(s): Georgie Tyler
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Ariadne Tate takes a deployment to Sudan with a medical aid organisation, romance is the last thing on her mind…but Dr Ford Gosden puts a glitch in her plans. Too damn attractive for his own good and a...

Dodo Destiny

Dodo Destiny
  • Author(s): Tom Parker
  • Location(s): Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1500s onwards

Dodo Destiny examines the sad tale of the dodo and the intriguing history of its native Mauritius, a beautiful island nation home to one of today’s truly multicultural societies. The dodo is a universal symbol of extinction, yet little...

Dog Fight

Dog Fight
  • Author(s): Matt Burgess
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set Queens. lfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose-sorry, Tariq-is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now...

Dog Island

Dog Island
  • Author(s): Philippe Claudel, Euan Cameron
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Dog Islands are a small, isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean – so called because together, when viewed from above, they form the shape of a dog, twisting and baring its teeth against a brilliant blue sea....

Dogstar Rising

Dogstar Rising
  • Author(s): Parker Bilal
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the heat is rising… The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred.As tensions mount, Makana – who fled his home in Sudan...

Domina

Domina
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...

Dominion

Dominion
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian...

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
  • Author(s): Alexandra Fuller
  • Location(s): Malawi, Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight is a wonderfully evocative memoir of Alexandra Fuller’s African childhood. Fuller regards herself “as a daughter of Africa”, who spent her early life on farms in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia throughout the...

Don’t Look Away

Don’t Look Away
  • Author(s): Rachel Abbott
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The breathless thriller from Rachel Abbott. DON’T LOOK AWAY will have you up listening late into the night, unable to tear yourself from it. From the moment I open my eyes, I know. Her bed is made, the wardrobe...

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