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A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe

A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe
  • Author(s): Bob Cullen
  • Location(s): Allegheny Mountains, Atlantic City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bobby Jobe is an arrogant pro golfer who fights with his caddy, chokes down the stretch in the PGA championship, then gets blinded by a bolt of lightning while hitting practice balls in a thunderstorm after the tournament. Caddy...

A Patch of Paradise

A Patch of Paradise
  • Author(s): Gaia Grant
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The desire to leave stressful city life behind and move to a tropical island is, for most, just a dream. Gaia Grant decided to turn that dream into a reality. Packing up her family and travelling through Asia –...

A Private Venus

A Private Venus
  • Author(s): Giorgio Scerbanenco
  • Location(s): Milan
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

In the bleak Milan suburb of Metanopoli, in the late 1960s, a dead woman is found along the side of the road. Duca Lamberti is a medical doctor who has just been released from prison, where he has spent...

A Song for Summer

A Song for Summer
  • Author(s): Eva Ibbotson
  • Location(s): Austria
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

Ellen grew up in a household where intellectual persuits were valued, but who craved to be a cook. She too a position at Hallendorf School a magical, mysterious place, unaware of the dangers and challenges ahead.

A Song in the Morning

A Song in the Morning
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): England, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The catalyst is the arrest of a British agent, James Curwen (aka Jeez Carew), in Johannesburg. After Jeez is sentenced to hang, along with four young blacks, he is effectively abandoned by the politically wary English government. Service with...

A Thatched Roof (2 Allways Trilogy)

A Thatched Roof (2 Allways Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Beverley Nicols
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

While the ostensible topics are houses and people, it is Nichols’ love of gardening, and the villagers who either encourage him or thwart him in its pursuit, that remains the lively theme through all the books. — Valerie Easton...

A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher 17)

A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher 17)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): Nebraska, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When you’re as big and rough as Jack Reacher – and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape – it isn’t easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so...

A Wedding in December

A Wedding in December
  • Author(s): Anita Shreve
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still...

A Week in December

A Week in December
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Several characters and their lives in one parallel week in December, in the lead up to Christmas, and how their paths cross. Essentially love is all around, in all its facets.

Absolute Friends

Absolute Friends
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Bavaria, Berlin, England, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s, 2000s

In previous novels, le Carré has delighted in taking us on a mystery tour. This time, the mystery is located in character more than plot. The absolute friends of the title are Ted Mundy and his East German friend,...

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