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Casket Girls

Casket Girls
  • Author(s): Susan Castillo Street
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 18th century

Story of four respectable girls sent by French king to New Orleans in 1728 as potential brides. They are all very different and the novel follows each of them. Apparently many of their adventures are based on true stories.

Cassandra Darke

Cassandra Darke
  • Author(s): Posy Simmonds
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn’t much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied...

Cast a Cold Eye

Cast a Cold Eye
  • Author(s): Robbie Morrison
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

Jimmy Dreghorn series Book 2 Glasgow, 1933 Murder is nothing new in the Depression-era city, especially to war veterans Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn and his partner ‘Bonnie’ Archie McDaid. But the dead man found in a narrowboat on the Forth...

Cast a Horoscope

Cast a Horoscope
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Greece, Middle East, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosalind Peters can’t believe her luck when in 1960, just in her twenties, she lands a job as an air-hostess, that is what cabin crew was called in those days. Life was every bit as glamourous as she imagined...

Castaway in the Caribbean

Castaway in the Caribbean
  • Author(s): Janice Horton
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Romance, Adventure
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vacationing on the beautiful Caribbean island of Antigua, Janey Sinclair is persuaded by her magazine editor boss to do a quick island hop in order to supervise an impromptu photo-shoot for the front cover. With no flights immediately available,...

Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles Book 4)

Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles Book 4)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

The aftermath of war, and the slow dawning of a new era of freedom and opportunity, shape the destinies of the Cazalets. Polly, Clary and Louise, now grown up, are ready to discover the truth about the adult world....

Castle of Dreams

Castle of Dreams
  • Author(s): Elise McCune
  • Location(s): Queensland, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s/ 2000s

A time-split novel. In the 1930’s two sisters’, Vivien and Rose Blake grow up in a castle in the far north Queensland rainforest. During the Pacific War they both fall in love with the same American serviceman. In the...

Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss

Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss
  • Author(s): Alison Ripley Cubitt
  • Location(s): Singapore, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s to present day

An eight-year-old child witnesses her mother’s secret and knows that from that moment life will never be the same. After Molly, her mother dies, Alison uses her legacy to make a film about Molly’s relationship with a man she...

Casual Cruelties

Casual Cruelties
  • Author(s): Alison Irving
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

She wants to escape the prison of her marriage—but after decades of mind games, does she have the strength to break free? Fifty-three, long married, and in the throes of menopause, Laura is dismayed. She’s always tolerated her journalist...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Author(s): Tennessee Williams
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The...

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