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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....

Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone

Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
  • Author(s): Maurizio de Giovanni
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second title in de Giovanni’s new series set in contemporary Naples. A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as ‘the Chinaman’, starts...

Daughters

Daughters
  • Author(s): Lucy Fricke, Sinéad Crowe (translator)
  • Location(s): Amorgos, Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Fricke‘s Daughters tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter...

Daughters of Cornwall

Daughters of Cornwall
  • Author(s): Fern Britton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919 forward to 2020

Love can last a lifetime. But can it last three? 1918 World War One is over. But Clara’s fight for her family is only just beginning… 1947 Clara’s daughter, Hannah, is in love for the first time – but...

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead
  • Author(s): Mark Roberts
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A serial killer. A hero to some. A wanted criminal to others. The man who calls himself Vindici broke out of prison last year. Now he’s filmed himself torturing and killing paedophiles in Liverpool’s affluent suburbs. Half the city...

Days at the Torunka Café

Days at the Torunka Café
  • Author(s): Eric Ozawa (translator), Satoshi Yagisawa
  • Location(s): Yanaka
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles. Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is...

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