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Crescent Moon Over Laos

Crescent Moon Over Laos
  • Author(s): Mark Boyter
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1990s

Travel writer Mark Boyter’s solo journey through Laos, shortly after it’s re-opening to Western travel and tourism in the early 1990s. Beautifully written in a self-reflective style that looks both at a country and a traveller.

Crick Crack, Monkey

Crick Crack, Monkey
  • Author(s): Merle Hodge
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tee is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice, so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
  • Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): early 19th century

Dostoyevsky’s great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of...

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The first book in a totally gripping hard-boiled crime fiction series Undercover detective Sam Batford is through with police budget cuts and ineffectual superiors. But has he gone rogue? He is sent to work with a serious crime team...

Crimson City (Muzaffar Jang, #4)

Crimson City (Muzaffar Jang, #4)
  • Author(s): Madhulika Liddle
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 17th century - Mughal Empire

A serial killer is terrorizing Dilli and Mughal nobleman and detective Muzaffar Jang might have finally met his match. In the spring of 1657, the Mughal armies have reached the Deccan, besieging the Fort of Bidar. Back home in...

Crimson Lake

Crimson Lake
  • Author(s): Candice Fox
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

12.46: 13-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 12.52: The girl is missing . . .Six minutes – that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused...

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
  • Author(s): Marcus Tanner
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

From the ashes of former Yugoslavia an independent Croatian state has arisen, the fulfillment, in the words of President Franjo Tudjman, of the Croats’ ‘thousand-year-old dream of independence’. Yet few countries in Europe have been born amid such bitter...

CROATIA: Travels in Undiscovered Country

CROATIA: Travels in Undiscovered Country
  • Author(s): Tony Fabijancic
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

In his travels through Croatia, Tony Fabijancic saw a world of peasants, shepherds and fishermen irrevocably giving way to the new reality of a modern European state. With a deft and sure touch, he records moments that capture the...

Croatian Nights

Croatian Nights
  • Author(s): Borivoj Radakovic, Matt Thorne, Tony White
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For the last six years, the playwright and novelist Borivoj Radakovic has invited leading British writers to come to Croatia, and more recently to Serbia, and perform to huge audiences alongside the very best authors from the countries that...

Crocodile on the Sandbank

Crocodile on the Sandbank
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Peters
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first Amelia Peabody adventure, in which she comes into her inheritance and decides to see the world. Rescuing Evelyn Barton-Forbes on her way, she arrives in Egypt where they meet Radcliffe Emerson, an archaeologist who doesn’t need help...

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