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A Brief Affair

A Brief Affair
  • Author(s): Margaret Leroy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second World War

The cups and saucers on the dresser begin to rattle faintly, as though a tremulous hand is holding them. The water in the washing-up bowl shivers all over its surface. There’s a distant droning, something at first more felt...

A Conference in Stockholm

A Conference in Stockholm
  • Author(s): Kathy Harter
  • Location(s): Stockholm, Eastern Europe, New York City (NYC), Oxford, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A noted climate activist is about to name names at a symposium in Stockholm. CIA agents Joshua Daine and Valerie Rhodes are sent on a simple retrieval mission to pick up classified information. She is kidnapped, he is shot,...

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...

A Single Thread

A Single Thread
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): Winchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1930s

It is 1932, and the’ losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fianc’ and her brother and regarded by society as a’ surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to escape...

All Creatures Great and Small: “If Only They Could Talk” and “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet”

All Creatures Great and Small: “If Only They Could Talk” and “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet”
  • Author(s): James Herriot
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

This is the rural landscape of North Yorkshire. The life of a vet in the 1930s, beautifully written and a classic of its time.

An Almond for a Parrot

An Almond for a Parrot
  • Author(s): Wray Delaney
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

London, 1756: In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in the back streets of London, to conjuror’s assistant, to celebrated courtesan...

Belas Rift: The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Volume 3

Belas Rift: The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Volume 3
  • Author(s): Stephan von Clinkerhoffen
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Winchcombe
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Our young hero Stig and his female partner Meg chase the evil enemy’s leader Anet into a rift. This interdimensional portal brings them from their fantasyland through into a small village in 21st century England. Their mission is to...

Belonging

Belonging
  • Author(s): Umi Sinha
  • Location(s): India, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century to early 1920s

Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father’s surprise birthday present – a tragedy that ends her childhood in India and precipitates a new life in Sussex with her...

Between the Stops

Between the Stops
  • Author(s): Sandi Toksvig
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It’s about a bus trip really, because it’s my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker...

Beyond A Broken Sky

Beyond A Broken Sky
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Somerset, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945 and 2022

Some secrets are better left buried… 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and...

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