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At First Light

At First Light
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lafaye
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1993 and 1919

1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race...

Away with the Penguins

Away with the Penguins
  • Author(s): Hazel Prior
  • Location(s): Antarctica
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Current

Veronica McCreedy is about to have the journey of a lifetime . . . Veronica McCreedy lives in a mansion by the sea. She loves a nice cup of Darjeeling tea whilst watching a good wildlife documentary. And she’s...

Azúcar

Azúcar
  • Author(s): Nii Ayikwei Parkes
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Azúcar (sugar) is a novel about belonging in a world where all things are on the move: people, ideas, foods and not least music. Oswald Kole Osabutey Jnr, henceforth Yunior, leaves his family in Accra to travel to the...

B as in Beirut

B as in Beirut
  • Author(s): Iman Humaydan Younes
  • Location(s): Beirut
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. There is Lilian with her two children, desperate to emigrate, with...

Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2)

Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2)
  • Author(s): Savannah Grace
  • Location(s): Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tibet, Western China
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Savannah Grace’s best selling, award winning saga of her family’s four-year-long backpacking adventure continues. “Backpacks and Bra Straps” picks up where “I Grew My Boobs in China” leaves off, offering insights into how family dynamics are affected by such...

Bad Apples

Bad Apples
  • Author(s): Will Dean
  • Location(s): Värmland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Current

It only takes one… A murder A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated A festival A cultish hilltop community ‘celebrates’ Pan Night after the apple harvest A race against time As Visberg closes ranks to keep its deadly...

Bad Day at the Vulture Club

Bad Day at the Vulture Club
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a Parsi heiress approaches Inspector Chopra about her father’s death that the police dismissed as a random killing, Chopra feels uneasy at first at entering the world of power and privilege but is soon plagued by doubts about...

Bad For Good

Bad For Good
  • Author(s): Graham Bartlett
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How far would you go? The murder of a promising footballer, son of Brighton’s highest-ranking police officer, means Detective Superintendent Jo Howe has a complicated and sensitive case on her hands. The situation becomes yet more desperate following devastating...

Bad Sons

Bad Sons
  • Author(s): Oliver Tidy
  • Location(s): Romney Marsh
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

David Booker returns to Romney Marsh on the south coast of England for a holiday. He is expecting to spend time helping his aunt and uncle pack up the stock of their second-hand bookshop in preparation for a happy...

Baikonur: Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme

Baikonur: Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
  • Author(s): Jonk
  • Location(s): Kyzylorda
  • Genre(s): Photography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first ever collection of photographs showing in detail the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s most important urban exploration site. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was created by the Soviets in the 1950s. It was from Baikonur in 1988 that...

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