Catalogue Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New-appointed District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen and his wife Elsebeth are looking forward to the peaceful semi-retirement in the remote fishing village of Djevulsfjord on the stunningly beautiful island of Vagar. But when two boys go missing during the first whale hunt of the season, the repercussions strike at the heart of the isolated coastal community. As he pursues his investigations, Tristan discovers that the Mikkelsen brothers aren't the first...
3) The split
Author
Language
English
Description
A year ago, in desperation, Felicity Lloyd signed up for a lengthy research trip to the remote island of South Georgia - it was her only way to escape her personal hell. Freddie Lloyd has now served his time for murder - and now he's coming after Felicity. And, this time, he won't stop until he finds her. Felicity is about to find out that, no matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you.
Author
Series
Special publication volume no. 9
Publisher
American Geographical Society
Pub. Date
1928
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
?Oh, it?s really quite simple. I want you to play dead.? On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the other candidates react...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Description
As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine?s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The unique and harrowing account of the bloodiest battle of the Falkland War - the 1982 battle for Mount Longdon, as seen through the eyes of eight ordinary Argentine soldiers from the Seventh Infantry Regiment and five British paratroopers.
Author
Publisher
Avid Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It begins, they say, with a woman screaming. On a remote Scottish island, the McBride house stands guard over its secrets. A century ago, a young widow and her son died mysteriously there; just last year a local boy, visiting for a dare, disappeared without a trace. For Zoe Adams, newly arrived from America, the house offers a refuge from her failing marriage. But her peaceful retreat is disrupted by strange and disturbing events: night-time intrusions;...
13) Missing pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebekah Murphy knows too much ... She knows she's alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail. She knows that to get home, she must live to understand why this is happening. She knows someone tried to kill her for a secret. What she doesn't know is what that secret is. Detective Frank Travis doesn't know enough ... He doesn't know where to find Louise Mason. He doesn't know how and why she vanished into thin air three months ago. He doesn't...
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Anne Shirley 'erupts' into their lives, the Cuthberts little guess how fond they will become of the skinny, red-haired orphan. Both entertained and exasperated by her constant chatter and imaginings, they soon find it hard to remember what Green Gables was like without its irrepressible adopted daughter.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world.
Author
Series
Catesby volume 6
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Catesby takes over the South America Desk at MI6, only to discover that disaster in the South Atlantic is looming. Downing Street is slashing defence spending, but refusing to negotiate a Falklands deal. With hostilities imminent, Catesby's job is to prevent the Argentine Junta from obtaining more Exocet missiles. Catesby is summoned and given a secret and highly sensitive task by the Foreign Secretary. He is sent to Peru via Washington to help negotiate...
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In January 1927 - and still recovering from the harrowing circumstances surrounding her disappearance a month earlier - Agatha Christie sets sail on an ocean liner bound for the Canary Islands. She has been sent there by the British Secret Intelligence Service to investigate the death of one of its agents, whose partly mummified body has been found in a cave. Early one morning, on the passage to Tenerife, Agatha witnesses a woman throw herself from...
18) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This adventure story begins as Crusoe leaves the English coast for Africa and finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck. On a desert island, he finds another human footprint on the shore, encounters cannibals, and befriends a native.
19) The hidden
Author
Language
English
Description
Dora Simon and Joe O'Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly upended by the arrival of Barbara Hummel, who is determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions. Forced to confront a time they thought buried in the past, Dora and Joe's lives unravel - and entwine. For, trapped on the Channel Islands under the German occupation...
Author
Series
The Mysteries of the Greek Detective volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further. His methods are unorthodox, and he brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies. Who has sent him, on whose authority is he acting and how does he know of dramas played out decades ago?.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request