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Cookucina: A Recipe for Disaster

Cookucina: A Recipe for Disaster
  • Author(s): Stephen Phelps
  • Location(s): Le Marche
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A RECIPE FOR DISASTER is the entertaining journey of an Englishman struggling with the ups and downs of living in rural Italy. After giving up a successful career in television, Stephen finds himself dragged back into a world he...

Cows Can’t Jump

Cows Can’t Jump
  • Author(s): Phil Bowne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Modern

How far would you go for love? Winner of the Spotlight First Novel prize, Philip Bowne’s debut novel is an explosive coming-of-age odyssey. 18-year-old Billy is desperate to leave home. He’s working the ultimate dead-end job as a grave-digger....

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,...

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