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Dovetails in Tall Grass

Dovetails in Tall Grass
  • Author(s): Samantha Specks
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

As war overtakes the frontier, Emma’s family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her father, Chief Little Crow....

Down by the River

Down by the River
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

In the deceptively idyllic setting of rural Ireland, a crime of passion results in an emotional battlefield. At the centre of the crisis a young girl struggles with the conflicts of mind and body, the teaching of her faith...

Down In Demerara

Down In Demerara
  • Author(s): Mike Manson
  • Location(s): Guyana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

Felix Radstock is plucked from his humdrum job and dispatched to the forbidden rainforest of Guyana on a mysterious assignment. Only later does he discover the true purpose of his mission. Set in 1999, Down In Demerara is a...

Down River

Down River
  • Author(s): John Hart
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

John Hart’s debut, The King of Lies, was compelling and lyrical, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times declaring, “There hasn’t been a thriller as showily literate since Scott Turow came along.” Now, in Down River, Hart makes...

Down The Grain Silos

Down The Grain Silos
  • Author(s): Anthony Healy
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Novella

Fresh out of college the author finds himself in a unique position cleaning grain silos with two very different men. This story is about what they taught him. A cross between long form journalism and the short story, ‘Down...

Down to the Woods

Down to the Woods
  • Author(s): M J Arlidge
  • Location(s): New Forest
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

DI Helen Grace 8 The last thing Tom Campbell remembers is camping in the New Forest with his girlfriend, Melissa. Now he is helpless, alone and consumed by fear, hunted through the woods by a sinister, masked figure… When...

Dr Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party

Dr Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

Dr Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Compendium of Irish Animals

Dr Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Compendium of Irish Animals
  • Author(s): Rob Maguire, Aga Grandowicz (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A large-format, full-colour hardback information book on the animals of Ireland. Animals from the air, land and sea are introduced to the reader by Dr Hibernica, an Irish professor who travels the country and knows everything there is to...

Dr Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Compendium of Irish Animals

Dr Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Compendium of Irish Animals
  • Author(s): Rob Maguire, Aga Grandowicz (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children, Nature
  • Era(s): N/A

A large-format, full-colour hardback information book on the animals of Ireland. Animals from the air, land and sea are introduced to the reader by Dr Hibernica, an Irish professor who travels the country and knows everything there is to...

Dr Zhivago

Dr Zhivago
  • Author(s): Boris Pasternak
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Russian Revolution

Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains,...

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