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Binary Witness

Binary Witness
  • Author(s): Rosie Claverton
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Police detectives rely on Amy Lane to track the digital debris of their most elusive criminals—when she’s not in the throes of a panic attack. After two students disappear in Cardiff , Amy uncovers photographic evidence that they’ve been...

Biography of X

Biography of X
  • Author(s): Catherine Lacey
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th and 21st centuries

When X – an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter – dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of...

Bird Life

Bird Life
  • Author(s): Anna Small
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another’s lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to...

Bird Spotting in a Small Town

Bird Spotting in a Small Town
  • Author(s): Sophie Morton-Thomas
  • Location(s): North Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

My feet are itching to walk to the shore, to leave the kids again, to sit with the birds and pretend none of this has happened. In a small, isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran’s life is...

Bird’s Milk

Bird’s Milk
  • Author(s): Jana Bakunina
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s- 2000s

In Bird’s Milk, Jana Bakunina tells the story of her childhood in the Soviet Union from the early days of perestroika to the collapse of the USSR, offering a unique insight into the lives of ordinary Russians. Bird s...

Birdcatcher

Birdcatcher
  • Author(s): Gayl Jones
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘I am living on the white-washed island of Ibiza with my friend Catherine Shuger, a sculptor who has been declared legally insane, and her husband, Ernest. Standing on the terrace, sheltered in the smell of oranges and eucalyptus, washed...

Birnam Wood

Birnam Wood
  • Author(s): Eleanor Catton
  • Location(s): South Island, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and...

Bitch Creek

Bitch Creek
  • Author(s): William G Tapply
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

William G. Tapply has created a fresh new world in BITCH CREEK, a steamy, perfectly crafted mystery introducing Stoney Calhoun, an unlikely hero. Stoney is a man without a past. A lightning strike obliterated his memory, and, as so...

Bitter Almonds

Bitter Almonds
  • Author(s): Lilas Taha
  • Location(s): Damascus, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

He is orphaned at birth, born into displacement and chaos. He has only one thing to hold on to: a love beyond his reach that propels him forward. She is young and idealistic, and tries to break out of...

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus is Lawrence Durrell’s unique account of his time in Cyprus, during the 1950s Enosis movement for freedom of the island from British colonial rule. Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, it is a document...

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