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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...

Catalina

Catalina
  • Author(s): Liska Jacobs
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman’s downward spiral following the end of an affair Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that’s her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels...

Catch 22

Catch 22
  • Author(s): Joseph Heller
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Horror, Humour
  • Era(s): WW2

A classic of its time, it vacillates between horror and humour. Set towards the end World War II an American Bomber Squadron is stationed on a small island off Italy’s coast. An ever increasing number of missions means an...

Catch Me If You Candy

Catch Me If You Candy
  • Author(s): Ellie Alexander
  • Location(s): Ashland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Things are getting spooky in Catch Me If You Candy, the next delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series from author Ellie Alexander, set in Ashland, Oregon! Halloween has arrived in picturesque Ashland, Oregon, and all of the ghouls and...

Catch of the Day

Catch of the Day
  • Author(s): Marcia Evanick
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Misty Harbor, Maine, is awash in eligible bachelors—and as the only single gal in town, newcomer Gwen Fletcher is surrounded by potential suitors. The trouble is, she’s got a restaurant to renovate, and the carpenter she’s hired seems bent...

Catching Lightning

Catching Lightning
  • Author(s): Katie Stephens
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

You never know where or when lightning will strike, but when it happens on a trip back to Kenya to bury your parents you know the timing isn’t great. Mel has spent the past 14 years resenting her parents...

Catering to Nobody

Catering to Nobody
  • Author(s): Diane Mott Davidson
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Even though working a wake isn’t Goldy Bear’s idea of fun, the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast featuring Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. Her culinary efforts seem to be...

Catfish Alley

Catfish Alley
  • Author(s): Lynne Bryant
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1931 onwards

A moving debut novel about female friendship, endurance, and hope in the South. Roxanne Reeves defines her life by the committees she heads and the social status she cultivates. But she is keeping secrets that make her an outsider...

Catfish Alley

Catfish Alley
  • Author(s): T M Stratton
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tommy Chisholm is in trouble. His dream life in Barcelona is unravelling. He’s broke, his writing career has stalled, and maybe it’s time to pack up and go home. When he’s recruited by an organised crime gang to help...

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