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Achilles’ Helmet

Achilles’ Helmet
  • Author(s): Graham Bishop
  • Location(s): Greece, Skiathos, Skopelos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When a private collector commissions two London art dealers to find the battle helmet worn by Prince Achilles at the siege of Troy 3000 years ago, they engage a team of Italian tomb robbers to find the tomb. Interpol...

Acquisition

Acquisition
  • Author(s): Robert W Zinnecker
  • Location(s): Michigan, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The telecommunications company, Dynacom, is CEO Wilson McCann’s only love. He has sacrificed everything to lead it to success in an industry that is undergoing deep change while shrinking through aggressive acquisitions by rival companies. Dynacom’s competitor, Legent, moves...

Against the Tide

Against the Tide
  • Author(s): Theresa Tomlinson
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Theresa Tomlinson has established herself as a talented writer of historical fiction, particularly when pinpointing her home territory on the NE coast of England. Here in one volume are three of her most gripping novels in which she describes...

Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer

Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer
  • Author(s): M C Beaton
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin....

Air Babylon

Air Babylon
  • Author(s): Imogen Edwards Jones
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Air Babylon is a trawl through the highs, the lows, and the rapid descents of the travel industry. It catalogues the births, the deaths, the drunken brawls, the sexual antics, and the debauchery behind the scenes of the ultimate...

All For You

All For You
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

As TV’s favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn’t foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With a string of failed relationships behind her, surely history isn’t...

All Good Things

All Good Things
  • Author(s): Sarah Turnbull
  • Location(s): Tahiti
  • Era(s): Modern

“In this lushly written follow-up to Almost French, Sarah Turnbull explores a new paradise: Tahiti.

All Men Love Leah

All Men Love Leah
  • Author(s): Ksenija Nikolova
  • Location(s): Pisa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

All Enzo wants is a reason to believe it’s all worthwhile. Stuck in a world that doesn’t fulfil him, he meanders through his days feeling empty, lost, and left out of the real world that is moving by without...

Almost Mine

Almost Mine
  • Author(s): Lea Darragh
  • Location(s): Blue Mountains
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

An emotional novel about not seeing what’s right in front of you — and not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Cate has always taken Nick for granted. Through a wild youth of mistakes, bad choices, and self-destructive...

Amazing Grace Adams

Amazing Grace Adams
  • Author(s): Fran Littlewood
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn’t scream or...

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