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Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)

Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester, Leeds
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Manchester, 1942 A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison’s romance with the charming Dr Maitland is blossoming, but then she is posted away from Manchester. Working in a canteen isn’t part of her plan, nor...

Death of an Avid Reader

Death of an Avid Reader
  • Author(s): Frances Brody
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Post WW1

A lady with a secre Kate Shackleton’s sterling reputation for courageous sleuthing attracts the attention of the venerable Lady Coulton. Hidden in her past is a daughter, born out of wedlock and given up to a different family. Now,...

Denial – The Varcolac Journals

Denial – The Varcolac Journals
  • Author(s): Adele Carrington
  • Location(s): Leeds, Whitby
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

“I hate my life! After careful consideration and contemplation involving far too much alcohol I am resigned to the fact that I hate my life. I am a single thirty-one year old woman, living alone in my two bed...

Started Early, Took my Dog

Started Early, Took my Dog
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

British author Atkinson’s magnificently plotted fourth novel featuring Jackson Brodie (after When Will There Be Good News?) takes the “semi-retired” PI back to his Yorkshire hometown to trace the biological parents of Hope McMasters, a woman adopted by a...

My Other Husband

My Other Husband
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton, Leeds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022 looking back to mid 1990s

Cleo Forsum is a bestselling novelist turned scriptwriter whose TV series, ‘The Baking Detective’ is a huge success. But now she has decided to walk away from it all and wants to divorce her husband, Wallace. But what is...

A Blood Condition

A Blood Condition
  • Author(s): Kayo Chingonyi
  • Location(s): Leeds, London, Zambezi River
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): N/A

The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi A Blood Condition tells a story of inheritance – the people, places, cultures and memories that form us. Kayo Chingonyi explores how distance and time, nations and...

All Us Sinners

All Us Sinners
  • Author(s): Katy Massey
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

The impressive and moving debut crime novel from huge new talent Katy Massey opens up a world we have rarely seen, at a time of great danger and drama. Leeds, 1977. A chill lies over the city: sex workers...

Headlines and Hedgerows

Headlines and Hedgerows
  • Author(s): John Craven
  • Location(s): Leeds, Harrogate, Tyneside
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1945 to present day

Very interesting book about John Craven’s life – from schoolboy reporter would be journalist to BBC reporter.

Impaled

Impaled
  • Author(s): Ray Clark
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Noir
  • Era(s): contemporary

A heinous crime spoils a veteran detective’s appetite DI Stewart Gardener’s first romantic dinner with a love interest since the passing of his wife is interrupted by a call from the station. Someone has been killed, and it sounds...

IMPASSIVE

IMPASSIVE
  • Author(s): Ray Clark
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

A hypnotically good murder mystery… read this and you’ll be spellbound! DI Stewart Gardener is adding the final touches to his motorbike restoration project when a murder case drops a spanner in the works. A man has stumbled upon...

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