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Combat Camera

Combat Camera
  • Author(s): Christian Hill
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Helmand
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2011

May 2011, Afghanistan: Camp Bastion is under attack, the Sun’s Defence Editor is about to catch the wrong helicopter, and a famous TV war reporter is missing half his kit and wants his trainers back. Amid the chaos, Christian...

Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians
  • Author(s): Kevin Kwan
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Crazy: When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn’t know is that...

Death and Restoration

Death and Restoration
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Europe, Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A tip-off without any names and a theft with no obvious motive – these are the apparently innocuous matters currently in the hands of Flavia di Stefano of Rome’s Art Theft Squad. Flavia is able to disturb the looters...

Down To The River

Down To The River
  • Author(s): Anne Whitney Pierce
  • Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s / 1970s

Down to the River is a family saga set in the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Twin brothers, Nash and Remi Potts, have grown up as entitled, Harvard-educated, golden boys, heirs to...

Enigma of China

Enigma of China
  • Author(s): Qiu Xiaolong
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Era(s): Modern

Chief Inspector Chen faces has to consider his role as a policeman and party official. head of the Shanghai Housing Development Committee has supposedly committed suicide after a huge amount of corruption has come to light. It has to...

Everybody Jam

Everybody Jam
  • Author(s): Ali Lewis
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Danny Dawson lives in the middle of the Australian outback. His older brother Jonny was killed in an accident last year but no-one ever talks about it. And now it’s time for the annual muster. The biggest event of...

Fallout

Fallout
  • Author(s): Sadie Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It seems a world away from the provincial town he has fled along with his own troubled past, and his new life is unrecognisable – one of friendships forged in pubs,...

Fishnet

Fishnet
  • Author(s): Kirstin Innes
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of Not The Booker Prize 2015 Twenty year old Rona Leonard walks out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappears. Six years on, worn down by a tedious job, child care and the aching absence in her life,...

Friendship Makes the Heart Grow fonder

Friendship Makes the Heart Grow fonder
  • Author(s): Lisa Verge Higgins
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lenny left his wife Monique a healthy legacy and a “bucket list”of things they’d dreamed of experiencing together before cancer took his life. For four years his widow ignored it, too busy raising their daughter to consider the painful...

From Barcelona, with Love

From Barcelona, with Love
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Celebrity star, Bibi Fortuna, flees the U.S. when her lover and her best friend killed in a car accident. The police are looking at Bibi. She flees to Barcelona, but her daughter, left behind, engages a P.I to see...

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