Duncan: 1764 books

"For a few moments I listened to stillness. Then I opened the door and slid out of the car. On either side of the track lay a tangle of black and grey shadow. Vast sheets of cloud floated southwards. The moonlight had faded to a dusting of light along the ground. I crept to the gate and looked...

Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural mélange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both. Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for get-rich-quick schemes. Kate Lyle is a headstrong young...

This is the "FIRST BOOK" in the "AMAZING BLUE WIZARDS JOURNEY TRILOGY SERIES!" A "MAGICAL ADVENTURE" that happens in New Zealand. Far up north a secret, "ANCIENT TEMPLE" hides a dark "MYSTERIOUS WIZARD" that has cast a dreadfully powerful spell to "DOOM" the forests and the creatures...

A Bloody Words Light Mystery 2014 Finalist Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But...

When a desperate Eulalie Gibb comes to Rio Penasco to escape a murderous maniac, no one, least of all Eulalie herself, believes she'll find the love of her life there. Eulalie, who grew up with her sister Pasty in her family’s traveling theatrical company in New York City, is almost prepared...

This is a book about challenge, adventure and discovery. It is not a novel, as all of the happenings are based on genuine events. 'Gentlemen of a certain age' may well recognise some of the traits and frailties displayed by the main characters. Swimmers, and particularly those responding...

Longing for adventure, prim and proper Georgina Witherspoon came to the Wild West to care for her crazy grandmother. But when she got there she discovered that Grandma wasn't mad as everyone had suggested--she was simply being haunted by the ghost of her true love, Devlin, who never bother to declare...

Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories.

April Corrigan's life is turned upside-down when she when she learns that her father has been working secretly undercover for the FBI. When his testimony convicts a notorious drug dealer, the whole family must relocate and enter the Federal Witness Security Program. April's entire way of life changes--not...

Janet Sandison comes home to the small fishing village of Achcraggan in Scotland. Behind her are ten years of happiness with her husband Twice, whose death has brought to an end their life on the island of St Jago in the West Indies. Before her lies a new career as a novelist and a return to the countryside...

From USA Today Bestselling Author Danielle Duncan... When BBW Sophie begins her new job as chef in William Blackwell's mansion, she wants a new start.  Her last job led to a romance with her billionaire boss which ended in heartbreak.  This time, she swears she'll stay away from...

The first adventure in the series starts aboard a ship visiting the Island of St Helena where the Wallace Boys are going to stay with their uncle, the Governor. While on board the RMS St Helena, Bruce discovers that there are a pair of stowaways in one of the lifeboats and he gets thrown off the back...

As the townsfolk of the Welsh valley town of Llanelen settle in for the snowiest winter in twenty-five years, an American stranger arrives. Harry Saunders charms the ladies, one of them in particular: Evelyn Lloyd, the town's former postmistress, who was left comfortably off after the death of her...

“A fiendishly sharp, intelligent examination of modern human life that is as funny as hell.” —The Times (London) The end is nigh and the Prince of Darkness has just been offered one hell of a deal: reentry into Heaven for eternity—if he can live out a well-behaved life in a human body...