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Color Me In

Color Me In
  • Author(s): Natasha Diaz
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds. Growing...

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
  • Author(s): Haruki Murakami
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and...

Colour Me In

Colour Me In
  • Author(s): Lydia Ruffles
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FIX ME. DRAW ME WHOLE. COLOUR ME IN. “A dream of a novel”Buzz feed “Dark, vivid and totally original. I loved it.” Lisa Williamson, author of The Art of Being Normal “Remember the name Lydia Ruffles” Stylist The Catcher...

Colour Scheme

Colour Scheme
  • Author(s): Ngaio Marsh
  • Location(s): North Island, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand’s North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death — Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling...

Colpo di Lama

Colpo di Lama
  • Author(s): Mauro Covacich
  • Location(s): Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): contemporary

Un noir ambientato nel nord-est, un ritratto spietato della provincia italiana e insieme una intensa storia di amore, politica, gelosia. La confessione di un uomo in lotta con i suoi fantasmi, e del suo imprevedibile riscatto. L’architetto Fabbretto non...

Comanche Moon

Comanche Moon
  • Author(s): Larry McMurtry
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s to 1860s

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man’s Walk and prequels Lonesome Dove, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant...

Come and Get It

Come and Get It
  • Author(s): Kiley Reid
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘I couldn’t put it down, and I didn’t want to either’ EMILY HENRY ‘A page-turning pleasure – stylish, sharp and breathtakingly smart‘ DAISY BUCHANAN Everything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for. Millie wants to...

Come and Go, Molly Snow

Come and Go, Molly Snow
  • Author(s): Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Things look good for Carrie Marie Mullins, a Kentucky bluegrass fiddler and the only woman in the Hawktown Road band. She loves the wild music and the late hours. She also loves Cap Dunlap, Hawktown’s roughly handsome lead guitarist...

Come Join Our Disease

Come Join Our Disease
  • Author(s): Sam Byers
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption. Maya is homeless and living on an illegal encampment in London. The site is razed and Maya is detained, but then...

Comet Weather

Comet Weather
  • Author(s): Liz Williams
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A contemporary fantasy novel set in rural Somerset, near Glastonbury. Beautifully written and full of wonderful characters, with a rich sense of place.

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