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Chasing Black Unicorns. How building the Amazon of Africa put me on Interpol’s Most Wanted list

Chasing Black Unicorns. How building the Amazon of Africa put me on Interpol’s Most Wanted list
  • Author(s): Marek Zmyslowski
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Silicon Valley meets Indiana Jones – Chasing Black Unicorns is an autobiography written by Marek Zmysłowski, one of Poland’s most respected internet entrepreneurs. Witty and humorous, the book covers many dramatic and often dangerous events. Before moving to Nigeria...

Chasing the Monsoon

Chasing the Monsoon
  • Author(s): Alexander Frater
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1987

Mainly set in India. On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India around...

Chemical Cocktail

Chemical Cocktail
  • Author(s): Fiona Erskine
  • Location(s): Brazil, Portugal
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jaq Silver is back with a bang in this high-octane third novel in the series When Jaq Silver’s mother dies, she is handed a poisoned chalice. An inheritance more valuable to her than she could have imagined. Travelling from...

Chéri

Chéri
  • Author(s): Colette
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Léa de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Chéri – a playboy half her age....

Chicago: A Novel

Chicago: A Novel
  • Author(s): Brian Doyle
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of...

Chickenhawk

Chickenhawk
  • Author(s): Robert Mason
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Most of us have experienced the Vietnam War through TV – fires, bombings, B-52s. This book vividly takes you to the Vietnamese villages of Vietnam. He describes the people involved in the conflict, mostly North & South Vietnamese and...

Chickens Eat Pasta: Escape to Umbria

Chickens Eat Pasta: Escape to Umbria
  • Author(s): Clare Pedrick
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Chickens Eat Pasta is the tale of how a young Englishwoman starts a new life after watching a video showing a chicken eating spaghetti in a mediaeval hill village in central Italy. Unlike some recent bestsellers, this is not...

Child 44

Child 44
  • Author(s): Tom Rob Smith
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

This is a thriller set in 1950s Stalinist Russia, a regime that balks at nothing and executes opponents without conscience. It wanted to be seen as the perfect society. A series of brutal murders shatter this image, but if...

Christmas in the Snow

Christmas in the Snow
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Zermatt
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In London, the snow is falling and Christmas is just around the corner – but Allegra Fisher barely has time to notice. She’s pitching for the biggest deal of her career and can’t afford to fail. And when she...

City of Brick and Shadow

City of Brick and Shadow
  • Author(s): Tim Wirkus
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Moder

Already struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When...

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