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Day One

Day One
  • Author(s): Abigail Dean
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stonesmere will never be the same again… A village hall, a primary school play, a beautiful Lake District town. Into this idyllic scene steps a lone gunman whose actions set off a train of events that will have devastating...

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
  • Author(s): Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (translator)
  • Location(s): Jimbocho
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s...

Days of Distraction

Days of Distraction
  • Author(s): Alexandra Chang
  • Location(s): San Francisco, New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wry, tender portrait of a young woman–finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely–from a captivating new literary voice The plan is to leave. As for how, when,...

Days of Grace

Days of Grace
  • Author(s): Doris Kareva
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Poetry

Kareva is the most adored and beloved author in Estonia. Days of Grace spans over forty years of her poetic output, showing how the sustained depth and clarity of her poetry lies in her ability to create ambiguity and...

Days Without End

Days Without End
  • Author(s): Sebastian Barry
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s

Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars—against the...

Deacon King Kong

Deacon King Kong
  • Author(s): James McBride
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1969

The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots – for no apparent reason – the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church’s baseball team. The...

Dead and Gone

Dead and Gone
  • Author(s): Sherryl Clark
  • Location(s): Victoria
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s nothing more dangerous than revenge. Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she’s just about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking a job at the local pub to help...

Dead Angler

Dead Angler
  • Author(s): Victoria Houston
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In Wisconsin’s Northwoods, fishing is a way of life — and when the muskies are biting, life couldn’t be better. But when Doc Osborne catches more than he bargained for, he winds up in the middle of a murder...

Dead at Daybreak

Dead at Daybreak
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

An antiques dealer is burned with a blowtorch and executed with a single shot to the back of the head. The only clues at the scene are a scrap of paper and an unusual choice of gun. Ex-cop Zatopek...

Dead Cat Bounce

Dead Cat Bounce
  • Author(s): Peter Cotton
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A federal election campaign is thrown into chaos when a popular government minister goes missing and then turns up dead on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin. With Detective Darren Glass and the Australian Federal Police on the case,...

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