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Vitellius’ Feast (#4 – Four Emperors Series)

Vitellius’ Feast (#4 – Four Emperors Series)
  • Author(s): L J Trafford
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): AD 69

AD 69. As this most dramatic year draws to a close, now is the time to choose a definitive side. Whilst Vitellius enjoys the trappings of power around him, machinations are afoot. In the East, Vespasian has his eye...

Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop

Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop
  • Author(s): Abby Clements
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother Vivien’s ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-down. The Brighton shop is a seafront institution, but while it’s big on charm it’s critically low on customers. If the sisters...

Voice of the Violin

Voice of the Violin
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth novel in Andrea Camilleri’s savagely funny, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano

Voices of the Old Sea

Voices of the Old Sea
  • Author(s): Norman Lewis
  • Location(s): Costa Brava
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“Voices of the Old Sea” is Lewis’ masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the...

Volunteer

Volunteer
  • Author(s): Gary McElkerney
  • Location(s): Africa, Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Chris Johnston, a 22 year old university student from Belfast, signs away another summer to lead a team of young volunteers as they travel to Ethiopia to build houses for charity. After an argument with the other leaders, Chris...

Vroom with a View

Vroom with a View
  • Author(s): Peter Moore
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

It was the late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warning him that life comes to an end after 40 that prompted Peter Moore to chase a boyhood dream. To go to Italy and seek out its celebrated dolce vita...

Vulture Peak

Vulture Peak
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok, World
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact-more or less-despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with...

Waiting for Sunrise

Waiting for Sunrise
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): France, Geneva, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering...

Wake Up Dead

Wake Up Dead
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

3 Lives intersect in Cape Town, South Africa. Roxy Palmer needs to escape a bad marriage and some bad decisions…Billy Afrika, cold blooded killer, is looking for payment and redemption, Piper is looking for hid ture love.

Waking Lions

Waking Lions
  • Author(s): Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
  • Location(s): Beersheba
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he...

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