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Poisoned Rock

Poisoned Rock
  • Author(s): Robert Daws
  • Location(s): Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

With only five weeks to go before the end of her secondment to the Royal Gibraltar Police Force, D.S. Tamara Sullivan is enjoying life on the Rock. With one murder investigation successfully under their belts, Sullivan and her commanding...

Prospero’s Cell

Prospero’s Cell
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1936-1938

A magical evocation of Durrell’s experiences on Corfu – before WW2. A slow sensuous life style – enjoying the elemental pleasures of daily life under the mythical Greek sun. Local villagers, intellectuals, illustrious visitors, all offer food for thought...

Queenie’s Place

Queenie’s Place
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Vietnam War

Queenie’s Place is about the unusual friendship between a 30-something white woman from California and a 50-something black woman raised in the Jim Crow south. Both women are just trying to be themselves. Set in rural North Carolina on...

Quiet Corners of Paris: Unexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards, Hidden Gardens

Quiet Corners of Paris: Unexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards, Hidden Gardens
  • Author(s): Jean-Christophe Napais
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Quiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-century passages, serene gardens, and cobblestone courtyards. Some of the places have breathtaking views, others are filled with...

RAINY DAY RAMEN and the COSMIC PACHINKO

RAINY DAY RAMEN and the COSMIC PACHINKO
  • Author(s): Gordon Vanstone
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 2010

A delightfully debauched, spiritual quest through a hallucinatory Japan of cursed gaijin houses, seedy hostess bars, a Beatles-themed McDonalds, mysterious internet cafe denizens, and one seriously pissed off cat. After three years in Japan, Fred Buchanan is broke, unemployed...

Rare Singles

Rare Singles
  • Author(s): Benjamin Myers
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics. Dinah...

Razorblade Tears

Razorblade Tears
  • Author(s): S A Cosby
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops...

Reaper

Reaper
  • Author(s): Vanda Symon
  • Location(s): Auckland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The City looks away … but someone is watching… A killer is hunting Auckland’s homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people. Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland – among the...

Reconciliation for the Dead

Reconciliation for the Dead
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Angola, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu’s newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the...

Red Dog Farm

Red Dog Farm
  • Author(s): Nathaniel Ian Miller
  • Location(s): Borgarnes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An atmospheric, moving, and droll coming-of-age story about a young man’s transformative year on his family’s struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he falls in love, discovers a fondness for farming, and yearns to connect with his stoic father, who...

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