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The Scarlet Forest A Tale of Robin Hood 2nd edition

The Scarlet Forest A Tale of Robin Hood 2nd edition
  • Author(s): A E Chandler
  • Location(s): Sherwood Forest
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 13th century

You are invited underneath the great greenwood tree to hear how a young man became a hero, and a hero became a legend. When Robin takes a shortcut through Sherwood Forest, the path he chooses leads not to Nottingham’s...

The Evidence

The Evidence
  • Author(s): K L Slater
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I can see her through the glass door. She’s smaller in real life than I expected. She looks the exact opposite of the type of woman that might murder her husband. Everyone’s heard of Simone Fischer. The young mother...

Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the first in a trilogy featuring Frank Elder. A strong story around the release and subsequent disappearance of a young offender. Elder is drawn into the investigation when repeats of the offenders modus operandi starting happening again,...

Lying Beside You

Lying Beside You
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The brand-new thriller from the Richard & Judy pick author and six-million-copy best seller. Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven’s family was murdered and only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer....

The Bygones

The Bygones
  • Author(s): Jim Gibson
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Fiction

“When I met the Devil I was twelve years old. I’d just started holding hands with Holly from the top end of the village and, even though I thought she was only messing me around when she said that...

The Dream Home

The Dream Home
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Mythology
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adam and Jess move into a new house with their three young children: a rambling Victorian villa in a nice neighbourhood right at the very top of their price range. Before long Adam discovers a door hidden behind a...

Living Proof

Living Proof
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A book and film convention in Nottingham. An American writer of a lesbian series is attacked by feminists and receives threats: prostitutes are under attack….

The Catch

The Catch
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): Nottingham, The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She says he’s perfect. I know he’s lying . . . He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me. There was something not quite right about my daughter’s new boyfriend . . ....

Christmas Every Day

Christmas Every Day
  • Author(s): Beth Moran
  • Location(s): Sherwood Forest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jenny inherits her estranged grandmother’s cottage in Sherwood Forest, she has nothing to lose – no money, no job, no friends, no family to speak of, and zero self-respect. Things can only get better… Her grumpy, but decidedly...

Darkness, Darkness

Darkness, Darkness
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): England, Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern and 1980s/90s

Thirty years ago, the British Miners’ Strike threatened to tear england apart, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, father against son―enmities which still smolder. Charlie Resnick, recently promoted to Detective Inspector and ambivalent, at best, about some of...

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