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Read Across The World Collection

£90.00

Our Read Across the World/Race Across the Shelves Bookcase 

Morocco – Portugal – Corsica – Switzerland – Bosnia – Germany – Norway (choose 7 books)

A reading adventure made up of 7 books,  following the teams from the start, via the checkpoint countries to the finish.

Our picks for the journey were Morocco Book 4, Portugal Book 2, Corsica Book 1, Switzerland Book 1, Bosnia Book 1, Germany Book 1, Norway (Scandi shelf book 6). Or choose from one of the country alternatives if you prefer. Happy book travels!

Books provided with bookmarks, two gift bags and gift tags.

(Also available individually from country/destination bookcases.)

 

Morocco Book 1
Tangier. A young woman arrives in Tangier with her husband, struggling to adjust to the heat, the noise and the bustle of the medinas and afraid to leave her apartment. It's completely unexpected when she runs into a friend to whom she hasn't spoken for more than a year, after an awful accident. Nonetheless, valuing a familiar face in a strange city, she allows her friend to help her leave the apartment and explore. It's not long before she starts to feel controlled - and then her husband goes missing.

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Morocco Book 2

Semi-autobiographical novel told through the eyes of a young child whose mother whisks her and her sister away to a bohemian life in Morocco on a quest to escape the conventions of English life and to find herself. Theirs is a unconventional, chaotic and colourful life, packed with eccentric characters. Allowed to roam freely, she and her sister begin to crave a simple, ordinary life. Evocative, touching and beautifully descriptive.

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Morocco Book 3
Contemporary fiction. David and Jo are on their way to a party deep in the Moroccan desert. But, as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, they are surprised by two young men by the roadside, swerving and colliding with one of them. Meanwhile, festivities are in full flow at the party. Under the watchful eyes of their Moroccan staff, the extravagant hosts attend to the whims of their decadent guests, as the party carries on into a new day. Arriving at the house, David and Jo must confront what they have done and come to terms with its shattering consequences.

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Morocco Book 4
Morocco/Algeria. When Isabelle's estranged father dies, he leaves her a mysterious box containing three items: an archaeological report about an ancient Saharan queen, a faded piece of paper written in what might be Arabic, and a curious silver amulet. In another place and time, Mariata belongs to a desert tribe that can trace its roots back to the legendary Saharan queen, Tin Hinan. When her father takes a new wife, he abandons the nomadic life and settles in town in southern Morocco, taking Mariata with him. Though her heart belongs to Amastan, her stepmother has plans to marry her off to another man. Finding that option unbearable Mariata embarks on an epic, solo journey into the desert determined to take her fate into her own hands. Separated by different times and cultures, the lives of Isabelle and Mariana are about to become fatally intertwined.

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Portugal Book 1
Lisbon. Thriller. A woman wakes up to discover that her new husband is missing from their hotel room. With the local police and Embassy slow to respond she finds herself in a race against time. And the one person she can ask for help is the one person she does not wish to talk to.

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Portugal Book 2
Lisbon. A body lies slumped in a stationary train. A high-profile man who appears to have died from repeatedly throwing himself against the glass - and it seems there many have been other forces at play. A small number of the population are classified as Gifted. Along with the label comes stigma and suspicion. In a city divided by prejudice, Gifted Inspector Isabel Reis is hiding her own secret whilst risking everything to find the killer.

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Corsica Book 1
Corsica. Summer 1989. Fifteen year old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family's car veers off a narrow road into a ravine. Twenty-seven years later she returns to the island with her husband and teenage daughter in an attempt to come to terms with her past. But then she receives a letter - from her mother as if she were alive. It seems impossible. Clotilde watched her parents and brother die that day. She has lived with their ghosts ever since. But then who sent the letter - and why?

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Switzerland Book 1
Geneva. Thriller. Nothing spreads like fear . . . In the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, Alex Hoffmann is a legend. He has developed an algorithm for playing the financial markets that generates billions of pounds - and feeds on panic. When one day his system is threatened by a terrifying intruder who breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home, his life becomes a waking nightmare. But who is trying to destroy him? And is it already too late to opt them?

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Switzerland Book 2
Thriller. Swiss Alps. A beautiful hotel cut off by a blizzard. A young woman goes missing at her engagement party. As the other guests find they are unable to leave they start to worry who's next.

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Bosnia Book 1

In aftermath of the Bosnian War, when Hannah Heath, a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of war-torn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on its restoration – to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hannah’s orderly life, including her encounter with the young librarian who risked his life to save the book.

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Germany Book 1
Cold War thriller. Berlin is still in ruins almost four years after the war, caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Alex Meier is a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis for America before the war. Now, the politics of his youth have left him embroiled in the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, Alex makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native BerlinBut almost from the start things go fatally wrong. Espionage, like the black market, is still a way of life.

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Scandi Shelf Book 6
Norway. Thriller. A gruesome discovery within the Arctic Circle sees a British intelligence officer in a race to contain a unknown contagion and a devastating bio-weapon.

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Scandi Shelf Book 2

Norway. Historical fiction (17th century). Winter 1617. The sea around the remote island of Vardø is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vardø is now a place of women and they must learn to survive by themselves. 18 months later a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet, has been summoned to bring the women to heel. He brings with him his young wife who, encounters something she has never experienced before – independent women. But where she finds happiness and love, her husband sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil which he must root out at all costs.

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Scandi Shelf Book 4

Norway. Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his tactiturn grandfather. The death of his parents, when he was a small child, has always been shrouded in mystery. His quest to unlock the past takes him on a long journey from Norway to the Shetlands and the battlefields of France and a very unusual inheritance.

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