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The Coast Road

The Coast Road
  • Author(s): Alan Murrin
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1994

It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley – the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette...

The Coconut Wireless: A Travel Adventure in Search of the Queen of Tonga

The Coconut Wireless: A Travel Adventure in Search of the Queen of Tonga
  • Author(s): Simon Michael Prior
  • Location(s): Tonga
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1996

When Simon and Fiona embark on a quest to track down the Queen of Tonga, they have no idea they’ll end up marooned on a desert island. No idea they’ll encounter an undiscovered tribe, rescue a drowning actress, learn...

The Collaborator’s Daughter

The Collaborator’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Eva Glyn
  • Location(s): Dubrovnik
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1944 and 2010

In 1944 in war-torn Dubrovnik Branko Milisic holds his newborn daughter Safranka and wishes her a better future. But while the Nazis are finally retreating, the arrival of the partisans brings new dangers for Branko, his wife Dragica and...

The Conviction of Cora Burns

The Conviction of Cora Burns
  • Author(s): Carolyn Kirby
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1885

To believe in her future, she must uncover her past… Birmingham, 1885. Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside her. Haunted by memories of a terrible crime,...

The Coral Bride

The Coral Bride
  • Author(s): Roxanne Bouchard, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula, Québec
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When an abandoned lobster trawler is found adrift off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, DS Joaquin Moralès begins a straightforward search for the boat’s missing captain, Angel Roberts – a rare female in a male-dominated world. But Moralès...

The Couscous Chronicles

The Couscous Chronicles
  • Author(s): Azzedine T Downes
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Azzedine Downes moves between cultures, places, and time in this wryly comedic, at times mysterious, and always curious memoir of a lifelong nomad. The best strategy was to drink tea, smile, and enjoy the frustration of not knowing where...

The Covenant of Water

The Covenant of Water
  • Author(s): Abraham Verghese
  • Location(s): Kerala, South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900-1977

‘One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!’ Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern...

The Croatian Island Library

The Croatian Island Library
  • Author(s): Eva Glyn
  • Location(s): Adriatic Sea, Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Where books are borrowed, friendships are forged and secrets uncovered… As a beautiful summer unfolds in the Croatian islands, Ana Meštrović embarks on a new venture – transforming her beloved catamaran into a floating library. Joined by crew members...

The Crossbow Stalker

The Crossbow Stalker
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice. Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But...

The Dark Flood

The Dark Flood
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Stellenbosch
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The undisputed champion of South African crime’ – Wilbur Smith One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of...

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