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- Location(s): Newbury
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1925
Everyone in 1920s London knows the Honourable Cressida Fawcett: fiercely independent (though never apart from her little pug Ruby), lover of martinis and interior designer extraordinaire. She’s solved many crimes of fashion… so how about murder? Cressida Fawcett is...
Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or so Mother Says)
- Location(s): Berkshire, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
GiGi (well, Griselda Griswald actually, but everybody calls her GiGi) is a woman with a mission: to help people improve the way they look, increase their self-esteem, and eventually, make them happier people. Being a personal shopper is a...
- Location(s): Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 15th century
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the old parson...
- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was a person after all, but she was suspended in mid-air. Abi’s heart began to thump against her ribcage as the full horror of what she was seeing became apparent. Her shrill scream pierced the silence, startling birds...
- Location(s): Berkshire, Shropshire
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Erotica
- Era(s): Modern
The honest, explicit and extraordinary memoir of Edward Charles Featherstone—Englishman, Businessman, Polo Player and Combat Pilot—My Rude Awakening reveals an astonishing account of life lived with passion and intensity. From the lush green Berkshire’s polo fields, through the ardours...
- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 2018 - 2020
My child means everything to me. But saving his life means destroying my best friend’s family… I didn’t plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I’d be going it alone, I swore...
The Secret Diary of Boris Johnson Aged 13¼
- Location(s): Windsor
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
- Era(s): 1977/78
The newly discovered diary of Boris Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson, aged 13¼, provides a fascinating glimpse into how Boris, a lazy, bumptious and overweening child, comes to believe he should be Prime Minister. Along the way, we see him...
- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
An Uncle Fred novel Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off...
- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1840
A wonderfully original, emotionally complex novel that delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane Austen – an act of destruction that has troubled academics for centuries. 1840: twenty three years after...
- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will...
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