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Behold the Bird in Flight

Behold the Bird in Flight
  • Author(s): Terri Lewis
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1200s

Romantic and stubborn, eleven-year-old Isi plans to marry for love and be mistress of her own castle. But life in 1198 is full of threat and a series of tragic events teaches her growing up is hard. When Isi...

Between Darkness and Light

Between Darkness and Light
  • Author(s): Roy Peachey
  • Location(s): Shanghai, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900

‘A shape flew towards him, blurred and uncertain, then the terror of anticipation was driven out by pain and horror. Weilian Tell missed the apple. The arrow’s sharp, bright tip pierced his eyeball.’ Shanghai 1900. Blinded in one eye...

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Calais
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. A captain in Assad’s military police, he’s about to be exposed as a covert member of the Free Syrian Army, and he knows exactly what fate awaits him. His first move is to...

Black Dogs

Black Dogs
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1946 and 1986

Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Timesbestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an...

Black Notice

Black Notice
  • Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
  • Location(s): Paris, Lyon, Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean’s breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia’s Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked,...

Black Sparrow

Black Sparrow
  • Author(s): A J Griffiths-Jones
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Two people, from two very different cultures and with two identical suitcases, are bound for Paris – with completely different intentions. One is a young Muslim woman taking the first steps of independence that will crush her traditional beliefs;...

Black Venus

Black Venus
  • Author(s): James MacManus
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably – thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing – and lost in the decadences of alcohol and opium, he is about to meet one...

Blackbird Fly

Blackbird Fly
  • Author(s): Lise McClendon
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): present day and WW2

When her husband dies suddenly, Merle Bennett and her teenage son decamp to the Dordogne to check out the stone cottage he left them… one they didn’t even know he owned. But a squatter has been living there for...

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie
  • Author(s): Eugene Barter
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink

At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start an auberge. This is the story of her experiences. Humorous and often self-mocking, always gentle and...

Bonita Faye

Bonita Faye
  • Author(s): Margaret Moseley
  • Location(s): Oklahoma, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

When small town girl Bonita Faye’s abusive husband, car salesman and fishing guide Billy Roy, is killed, she begins an adventurous new life that takes her from Poteau, Oklahoma to Paris and back again in a story of murder...

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