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The Dark Road

The Dark Road
  • Author(s): Ma Jian
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

The Dark Road is an angrier, more openly confrontational novel than its predecessors (Red Dust and Beijing Coma). Set in the river towns and vast waste sites that line the banks of the Yangtze in Guangdong province, it tackles...

The Darkening Hour

The Darkening Hour
  • Author(s): Penny Hancock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The tense and darkly atmospheric new psychological thriller from the author of Richard & Judy Bookclub pick Tideline A middle class woman at her wits’ end. A struggling migrant worker with few options for survival. When tensions boil over,...

The Darkest Evening

The Darkest Evening
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope’s only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead...

The Darkest Room

The Darkest Room
  • Author(s): Johan Theorin
  • Location(s): Öland (Oland)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The second in the Trilogy, this book is a very atmospheric murder mystery with slight supernatural overtones, which never swamp the sense of real-life menace. Married couple,Katrine and Joakim, and their children move from Stockholm to a manor house...

The Daughter

The Daughter
  • Author(s): Liz Webb
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years – ‘Dad…did you murder Mum?’ Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden...

The Daughters of Madurai

The Daughters of Madurai
  • Author(s): Rajasree Variyar
  • Location(s): Madurai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

‘A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.’ Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son – or worse, bears daughters. They let her...

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
  • Author(s): Chingiz Aitmatov
  • Location(s): Kazakhstan
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

This is the story of Yedigei, a worker at a remote railway junction in the middle of the Kazakh steppes.The trains to East and West cross just here. Yedigei is taking the body of a friend to be buried in...

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero
  • Author(s): Paulus Hochgatterer
  • Location(s): Lower Austria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Spring 1945

In October 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl arrives in a tiny farming community in Lower Austria, at some distance from the main theatre of war. She remembers very little about how she got there, it seems she has suffered trauma...

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal
  • Author(s): Frederick Forsyth
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A....

The Day of the Scorpion (Raj Quartet 2)

The Day of the Scorpion (Raj Quartet 2)
  • Author(s): Paul Scott
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

The second book expands on the first book, and introduces the main storyline of the susequent books, although the rape in the Bibighar Gardens lurks. Mohammed Ali Kasim, a respected Indian Congressman arrested by the British and the Layton...

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