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The Day of the Orphan

The Day of the Orphan
  • Author(s): Dr Nat Tanoh
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Like many eighteen-year-old boys, Saga’s prime concerns are: listening to music his mum calls “hop-hip”, learning about girls from his suave best mate Ibrahim, and making sure his considerable tummy is well-fed. In his affluent, liberal and relatively protected...

The Dennis Bisskit Adventures

The Dennis Bisskit Adventures
  • Author(s): Stephen Ainley
  • Location(s): Dudley, West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1950s and 60s.

The hilarious, fictional adventures of young, Dennis Bisskit. Growing up in Dudley in the 1950s and 60s. Schooldays , his first jobs at a department story and hotel, and finally as a young adult in the army. Fun of...

The Devil’s Advocate

The Devil’s Advocate
  • Author(s): Steve Cavanagh
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A DEADLY PROSECUTOR They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. A TWISTED RITUALISTIC KILLING When a young woman,...

The Diary of a Bookseller

The Diary of a Bookseller
  • Author(s): Shaun Bythell
  • Location(s): Wigtown
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown – Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of...

The Disobedient Wife

The Disobedient Wife
  • Author(s): Annika Milisic-Stanley
  • Location(s): Tajikistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2007-2008

Dedicated to the women of Tajikistan, The Disobedient Wife intertwines the narratives of a British expatriate, Harriet, whose journal portrays a darker interior world than that of the rich wife of the powerful Henri Simenon, and Nargis, her local...

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London, Tewkesbury
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary Dual timeline

Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. London, 1940 A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist...

The Divorce

The Divorce
  • Author(s): Moa Herngren
  • Location(s): Stockholm, Gotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There are two sides to every story. Which one will you believe? Together for more than thirty years, Bea and Niklas live a comfortable life in Stockholm. But one evening, following a trivial argument, Niklas disappears. Weeks pass before...

The Dollhouse

The Dollhouse
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern/1950s

When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 Darby McLaughlin is everything her hall mates aren’t: plain, self-conscious, homesick and convinced she doesn’t belong. Yet when she befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she’s introduced to an entirely...

The Doorman

The Doorman
  • Author(s): Chris Pavone
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Sensationally good, wise, wry and perceptive – this era’s great state-of-the-city novel, up there with the very best of Tom Wolfe and Jay McInerney.’ LEE CHILD The new electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestseller and master of...

The Eight Mountains

The Eight Mountains
  • Author(s): Paolo Cognetti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become. Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his childhood summers in a secluded valley in...

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