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Master’s Mates

Master’s Mates
  • Author(s): Peter Corris
  • Location(s): New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie), Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Peter Corris’ world weary but always charismatic hero Cliff Hardy has long been established as Australia’s favourite investigator. Often bloodied but never bowed in this latest gripping novel, Hardy is in pursuit of missing millions from Sydney to the...

Mastering the Art of French Eating

Mastering the Art of French Eating
  • Author(s): Ann Mah
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

Mastering the Art of French Eating The memoir of a young diplomat’s wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris–one dish at a time. When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband’s given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann’s...

Mata Hari

Mata Hari
  • Author(s): Michelle Moran
  • Location(s): Europe, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

From the international bestselling author of Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, infamous spy. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom . . ....

Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home

Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home
  • Author(s): Anne Goodwin
  • Location(s): Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

This book will have you breaking your heart one minute and laughing out loud the next. In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect. Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous...

Matti and Max: Adventures on Crete

Matti and Max: Adventures on Crete
  • Author(s): Sandra Lehmann
  • Location(s): Matala
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Matti and Max find a mysterious map while exploring the caves of Matala on Crete. The two friends can’t believe their luck. Could there be a hidden treasure? The clues take the boys on an adventurous journey to the...

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Max Havelaar – a Dutch civil servant in Java – burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is...

Maya’s Notebook

Maya’s Notebook
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Chiloé, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. But at school, the teenage Maya finds herself drawn towards the wrong crowd. Before she knows what’s...

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

On the tiny island of Rokesby, Addie helps her mother run a women’s retreat. Dreaming daily of escape, she consoles herself by swimming in the ocean that surrounds them. On the neighbouring island, joined to Rokesby by a bridge...

Mayon

Mayon
  • Author(s): Mickie B Ashling
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

After being discharged from the Marines, John Buchanan takes a position as overseer for plantation owner Ignacio Saenz. The work is good, but the real draw for John is Mount Mayon, the active volcano looming on the island’s horizon. Finally...

Meet Me in Paris

Meet Me in Paris
  • Author(s): Juliette Sobanet
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What does a romance novelist do when she loses her own happily ever after? Take a lover and travel to Paris, obviously. Or at least this is what Juliette Sobanet did upon making the bold, heart-wrenching decision to divorce...

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