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Confluence

Confluence
  • Author(s): Neville Menn
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): 21st Century

A gripping story of adventure, friendship, and romance in Africa. Five people from different worlds are brought together by extraordinary circumstances on this beautiful but unforgiving continent and challenged by unexpected events brought on by economic hardships, political corruption,...

Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles Book 3)

Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles Book 3)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1942

London and Sussex, 1942. The English family in turmoil . . .   The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicles. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos...

Conjure Women

Conjure Women
  • Author(s): Afia Atakora
  • Location(s): The American South
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

You’re free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past? A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is...

Connectedness

Connectedness
  • Author(s): Sandra Danby
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Now, and the 1980s

TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, ARTIST JUSTINE TREE HAS IT ALL… BUT SHE ALWAYS HAS A SECRET THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY EVERYTHING Justine’s art sells around the world, but does anyone truly know her? When her mother dies, she returns...

Consequences

Consequences
  • Author(s): R C Bridgestock
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present

The second in the D.I. Dylan series, set in Yorkshire and written by the husband and wife team who are the storyline consultants to TV’s Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey. Detective Inspector Jack Dylan has two unconnected murders...

Consider the Lily

Consider the Lily
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In the 1930s, an English country house and garden is decaying. How is it to be saved? In love with Daisy, its heir Kit Dysart meets the rich heiress Matty. Nervous and unhappy though she is, Matty is no...

Consolation

Consolation
  • Author(s): Michael Redhill
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

It is 1856, Toronto. Unable to make a living in the New World from his trade, English apothecary J. G. Hallam takes up the new science of photography, and embarks on a grand project to document the bleak young...

Conspiracy of Lies

Conspiracy of Lies
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gauci
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

From the author of The Embroiderer comes a powerful account of one woman’s struggle to balance her duty to her country and a love she knows will ultimately end in tragedy. 1940. With the Germans about to enter Paris,...

Constantinople

Constantinople
  • Author(s): Edmondo De Amicis
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbor – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation and entertaining...

Consumed By Obsession

Consumed By Obsession
  • Author(s): Sunira S
  • Location(s): West India
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Two people so different yet so alike. The one thing that unites them is obsession.” ‘Consumed By Obsession’ is the story of a grieving widower, Raj, who is convinced his wife’s grisly death is not an accident. Raj becomes...

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