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- Location(s): Bristol, Cardiff
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Gethin Grey is the man you call when there’s nowhere else to turn. His Last Resort Legals team investigates miscarriages of justice. But Gethin is running out of options himself: his gambling is out of control, his marriage is...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
Set in the late 18th century, this powerful historical novel focuses on the city of Bristol and its connections with the slave trade at a time when the abolitionist movement is gathering momentum in England. A well-respected Bristol councillor...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
It follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the mysterious shallows of her middle age. The story is full of drama – violent...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Merck cocaine, Keith Richards’ drug of choice is back. But there’s one big difference to the uber coca that fuelled the Rolling Stones tour in 1975 – it’s been modified so it’s undetectable in the human blood system. It’s...
- Location(s): Bristol, Havana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s and 2012
Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Bristol
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time...
- Location(s): Weston-super-Mare, Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s and present
1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother’s quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
The Georgian terraces are rising. In the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, the port of Bristol is awash with the commercial gains of the Empire. But in the midst of all the grand building projects something...
- Location(s): Bristol, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Middle 18th Century
‘I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like: he replied that it was like nothing on earth.’ In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by...