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The Birds That Never Flew

The Birds That Never Flew
  • Author(s): Margot McCuaig
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Battered and bruised, Elizabeth has taken her daughter and left her abusive husband Patrick. Again. In the bleak and impersonal Glasgow housing office Elizabeth meets the provocatively intriguing drug addict Sadie, who is desperate to get her own life...

The Birdwatcher

The Birdwatcher
  • Author(s): William Shaw
  • Location(s): Dungeness
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He is a murderer himself. But the victim was his only friend; like him, a passionate birdwatcher. South is warily partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi, newly recruited to the Kent coast from London. Together they find...

The Black Dog

The Black Dog
  • Author(s): Kevin Bridges
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain’s most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges Declan dreams of becoming a writer. It’s a dream that helps him escape the realities of his life – going through the motions...

The Black Dress

The Black Dress
  • Author(s): Deborah Moggach
  • Location(s): Muswell Hill
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pru’s husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She’s missing not so much him, but the life they once had – picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in...

The Blessed Girl

The Blessed Girl
  • Author(s): Angela Makholwa
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SOUTH AFRICAN SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY AWARDS Young, beautiful and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse,...

The Blue Door

The Blue Door
  • Author(s): Lise Kristensen
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 1940s

‘1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing…’ On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe and the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away...

The Blue Horse

The Blue Horse
  • Author(s): Philip Miller
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Recently bereaved, George Newhouse, is an art historian and newly appointed curator at the National Gallery who becomes increasingly obsessed with a lost minor Dutch masterpiece, The Blue Horse by Van Doelenstraat. The painting’s provenance is disputed and many...

The Bone Vault

The Bone Vault
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

A crime thriller that takes you around the Museums in New York! Again there is a murder which is investigated by Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. There are several twists in the relationship...

The Bones of Paris

The Bones of Paris
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1929

Paris, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream – he’s getting paid to troll the cafes and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a...

The Book of Madness and Cures

The Book of Madness and Cures
  • Author(s): Regina O'Melveny
  • Location(s): Europe, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice, she’s a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets...

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