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Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Contemporary Georgian Fiction
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Heighway (Editor)
  • Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 20th century

Spanning fifty years, but with a particular emphasis on post-independence fiction, this collection features a diverse range of styles and voices, offering a window onto a vibrant literary scene that has been largely inaccessible to the English-language reader until...

Contemporary Latvian Poetry

Contemporary Latvian Poetry
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Latvia
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The three books of this anthology present three generations of poets in the Baltic countries: those born before the Soviet occupation, during it, and shortly before the countries regained independence in the 1990’s. From the classical perspective of Latvian...

Conviction

Conviction
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s just a normal morning when Anna’s husband announces that he’s leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him. With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else’s story: a true-crime...

Cooking for Ghosts: Book I in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy

Cooking for Ghosts: Book I in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy
  • Author(s): Patricia V Davis
  • Location(s): Long Beach
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): mid-2000

Do hearts broken long ago forever leave a tangible trace? A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: each is haunted by a tragedy from...

Cooking for Picasso

Cooking for Picasso
  • Author(s): Camille Aubray
  • Location(s): Juan-les-Pins, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s, present

“A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking.”–Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned...

Cooper’s Promise

Cooper’s Promise
  • Author(s): Timothy Jay Smith
  • Location(s): West Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set against the background of corrupt government and voracious oil companies, Cooper’s Promise is the story of Sergeant Cooper Chance, army deserter and sharpshooter, who’s ended up adrift in a West African country. He wants nothing more than to...

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road
  • Author(s): Roger A Canaff
  • Location(s): Northern Virginia
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

As summer dies, the first boy is found in a shallow grave. More will follow. His hometown has a serial child killer in its midst…. At seventeen, John Ray has silently survived years of molestation at the hands of...

Cordelia Underwood

Cordelia Underwood
  • Author(s): Van Reid
  • Location(s): Portland, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1896

In the idyllic summer of 1896 in Portland, Maine, several people are embarking on adventures of a most audacious and entertaining nature. The lovely Cordelia Underwood unexpectedly inherits a large parcel of land, and discovers that it holds an...

Cords of the Grave: A Jack Sargent mystery.

Cords of the Grave: A Jack Sargent mystery.
  • Author(s): J.Ewins and L.Telfer
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): June 1973

Together with the medical skills of Ann Black, Jack Sargent investigates death and gets further insight into the levels of organised crime from London to Sussex in June 1873. Two momentous events affect Jack’s work, health and love life...

Corfu Capers

Corfu Capers
  • Author(s): Joy Skye
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Current

Join Kate Delaney on her life changing trip from Houston, Texas to Corfu where nothing goes as planned but everything falls into place in the most unexpected ways. Romance and fun in sun in this quirky tale that will...

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