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Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru

Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Traveller Dervla Murphy and her nine-year-old daughter Rachel, accompanied by an endearing mule named Juana, clambered the length of Peru with only the most basic supplies to sustain them, spending most of their time above 10,000 feet. Their gruelling...

Gods of the Lost Crossroads

Gods of the Lost Crossroads
  • Author(s): Robin Lloyd-Jones
  • Location(s): London, Peru
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1823

Rainbow, an African shaman travels through London in the early-nineteenth century in an attempt to locate the gods who will rescue his homeland from famine. Ending up with the mercenaries in the Peruvian War of Independence he finds his...

Kissing Ghosts (Dr. Dan Trix Mystery Series 9)

Kissing Ghosts (Dr. Dan Trix Mystery Series 9)
  • Author(s): Rodney Romig
  • Location(s): Ecuador, Peru
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

What would you do if you found your dentist dead in his chair when you arrived for an appointment? Detective Clifton Rodriquez convinces Dr. Dan Trix that the answer is simple: find out who done it. The trail leads...

Leopold’s Assassin

Leopold’s Assassin
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Brussels, Dinard, Guyana, Lima, Paris, Recife, St Malo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1902

1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate...

Love and the Goddess

Love and the Goddess
  • Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Coen
  • Location(s): Brazil, Galway, Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When cookery teacher Kate Canavan’s perfect life falls apart she moves to Galway City. Kate’s friend James urges her to love and nurture herself, but mischievous Ella persuades her to dust off her unused dating skills. So Kate explores...

On Wilder Seas

On Wilder Seas
  • Author(s): Nikki Marmery
  • Location(s): South America, Pacific Ocean, Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1579

April 1579: When two ships meet off the Pacific coast of New Spain, an enslaved woman seizes the chance to escape. But Maria has unwittingly joined Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage as he sets sail on a secret detour into...

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
  • Author(s): Alvaro Mutis
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2000s

Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • Author(s): Thornton Wilder
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1714

An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced...

The Caiman of Iquitos

The Caiman of Iquitos
  • Author(s): Bayard and Holmes
  • Location(s): Peru, Japan
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

In a chilling continuation of their Apex Predator novels, Bayard & Holmes compel us into the darkest corners of the Shadow World. A world where billionaires are not subject to governments and assassins, rogue nations, and terrorists are their...

The Key to Finding Jack

The Key to Finding Jack
  • Author(s): Ewa Jozefkowicz
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Flick’s big brother, Jack, goes missing in Peru and she is desperate to find him. But can she solve the greatest mystery of all: who Jack really is? A heartwarming, third novel from Waterstones Prize shortlisted author, Ewa Jozefkowicz,...

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