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Crash Land

Crash Land
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An adrenaline-charged thriller from the Kindle-bestselling author of Gone Again and Hit and Run. ‘An unnerving tale of what happens to ordinary lives when the wheels come off.’ VAL MCDERMID ‘A haunting, unforgettable page-turner that ticks every excellence box in crime writing.’ ALANNA...

Crisis

Crisis
  • Author(s): Frank Gardner
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself caught up in the coils of a plot that has terrifying international dimensions. Hunted down, captured, tortured and on the run...

Crocodile Tears

Crocodile Tears
  • Author(s): Mercedes Rosende, Tim Gutteridge (Translator)
  • Location(s): Montevideo
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The setting: Montevideo’s Old Town, with its dark alleys, crumbling facades and watchful residents. The gig: an armoured truck robbery. The cast: Diego, a failed kidnapper with weak nerves, Ursula Lopez, an amateur criminal with an insatiable appetite, the...

Cross Currents

Cross Currents
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A Thai family, Lek, Sarai, and their three children are making a living on the island of Ko Phi Phi running tourist accommodation. They have taken in a young American, Patch, who is avoiding the law after getting bound...

Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, The Beloved Country
  • Author(s): Alan Paton
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Many-layered messages of loss and faith, murder, redemption, and the Reverend Kumalo and his love for his people. A true classic.

D H Lawrence in Italy

D H Lawrence in Italy
  • Author(s): Richard Owen
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives...

Dance of Eagles

Dance of Eagles
  • Author(s): J S Holloway
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Aong time ago, and modern

An explosive adventure-thriller! A thousand years ago an almost legendary city existed in southern Africa, the hub of trade and with mystical stories abounding about its power and origins. But by the end of the 14th Century it was...

Dangerous Waters

Dangerous Waters
  • Author(s): Anne Allen
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Oh my God, what’s happening to me? After all this time, please, not again!’ Jeanne Le Page, gripped by fear and panic, struggles to breathe as the ferry arrives in Guernsey, the island she had fled 15 years before,...

Dark Matter

Dark Matter
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it....

Dark Vineyard

Dark Vineyard
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Périgord
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just before dawn one summer morning Bruno is summoned by the wail of the siren in the little town of St Denis in the Perigord. A fire is raging in a local barn and spreading to the surrounding fields....

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