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A Passage North

A Passage North
  • Author(s): Anuk Arudpragasam
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall....

A Place in the Hills

A Place in the Hills
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Rome, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1st Century AD, Modern

Antonia had become obsessed with a long-dead poet, Cassius. A soldier and lover, he had lived in the hills of Provence in Roman times where Antonia was now engaged in an archaeological dig. Her father was hoping to uncover...

A Postcard from Italy

A Postcard from Italy
  • Author(s): Alex Brown
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Grace Quinn loves her job at Cohen’s Convenient Storage Company, finding occasional treasure in the forgotten units that customers have abandoned. Her inquisitive nature is piqued when a valuable art collection and a bundle of letters and diaries are...

A Quiet Death in Italy

A Quiet Death in Italy
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Bologna: city of secrets, suspicion… and murder A dark and atmospheric crime thriller set in the beautiful Italian city of Bologna, perfect for fans of Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin and Philip Gwynne Jones. When the body of a radical...

A Quiet Flame

A Quiet Flame
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1950s

The action switches largely between Berlin in 1932 – and Bernie’s last abandoned case as a police officer when the mutilated body of a spastic teenage girl is discovered – and Buenos Aires in 1950 where he is invited...

A Ruby in her Navel

A Ruby in her Navel
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

The Court of King Roger in Twelfth century Sicily simmers with the volatile passions of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Latins and Greeks. Among them, a young Norman called Thurstan Beauchamp finds employment under Yusuf, a Muslim who holds the Christian...

A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique

A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique
  • Author(s): Guirec Soudée, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2014 onwards

When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique. Guirec never intended to sail the...

A Short Ride in the Jungle

A Short Ride in the Jungle
  • Author(s): Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

‘For the first time in my life I felt that death was a possibility; a stupid, pointless, lonely death on the aptly named Mondulkiri Death Highway.’ The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military...

A Silent Death

A Silent Death
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Southern Spain, A Silent Death is the scorching new thriller from worldwide bestselling author of The Lewis Trilogy, Cast Iron and I’ll Keep You Safe. A SILENT VOW Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his...

A Single Light

A Single Light
  • Author(s): Patricia Leslie
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Urban Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the bush, south of Sydney, among the beach goers, walkers and picnickers, a menace grows. The mysterious Bledray monsters are preparing for a Gathering; a feast of epic proportions. Only the Afflür Hunter and Guardians can stop them,...

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