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A Place of Secrets

A Place of Secrets
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again . . . Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a dark...

Talking at Night

Talking at Night
  • Author(s): Claire Daverley
  • Location(s): Montenegro, Norfolk, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another’s great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility...

The Man In The Corduroy Suit

The Man In The Corduroy Suit
  • Author(s): James Wolff
  • Location(s): London, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller

British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard...

How to Keep Well in Wartime

How to Keep Well in Wartime
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): Norfolk, France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1915 to 1993

Emily needs friends. Outwardly successful, about to get married, inside she is scared and grieving. When an accident reveals a relative she never knew existed, everything changes. Jim has buried his life in a mundane job at the Ministry...

Last Letter Home

Last Letter Home
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Campania, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

CAN A CHANCE ENCOUNTER UNLOCK ONE WOMAN’S PAST? On holiday in Italy, Briony Wood becomes fascinated by the wartime story of a ruined villa hidden amongst the hills of Naples. Not only is it the very place where her grandfather was...

Old Girls Behaving Badly

Old Girls Behaving Badly
  • Author(s): Kate Galley
  • Location(s): London, North Norfolk, The Chilterns
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to ‘find himself’ – alone – and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear...

Swallowtail Summer

Swallowtail Summer
  • Author(s): Erica James
  • Location(s): Norfolk Broads
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Linston End on the Norfolk Broads has been the holiday home to three families for many years. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at...

The Locked Away Life

The Locked Away Life
  • Author(s): Drew Davies
  • Location(s): Northamptonshire, Great Yarmouth, The Trossachs
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At the grand old age of eighty-two, Esther Saul has just one regret in life. Since her heart got blown to smithereens decades ago, Esther has never been the same. She has barricaded herself in a vine-covered manor house,...

The Low Road

The Low Road
  • Author(s): Katharine Quarmby
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800-1830

Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child....

The Secret Diary

The Secret Diary
  • Author(s): Anna Stuart
  • Location(s): Langham, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual Timeline - WWII and Contemporary

The past merges with the present in an unforgettable, poignant story of love, loss and courage in this beautifully written story set between World War Two and the present day. She steps into the room and it’s like going...

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