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- Location(s): Surrey, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1928 to 1930
London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it...
- Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1794
In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...
- Location(s): Surrey
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and...
- Location(s): Surrey
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Notwithstanding is a fictional village somewhere in Surrey, England around the Haslemere and Godalming area. Endless humour with a real heart, it celebrates the mundane, the ordinariness and the quirkiness of english life in a beautiful village.
- Location(s): Kansas, London, Surrey
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
A colorful novel of a woman’s self-discovery and family secrets — about moving abroad to finally find her own heart and home. ‘Rapeseed’ is a wonderful coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy, an extraordinary woman, and an American family...
- Location(s): North Downs
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate....
- Location(s): Surrey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern and 1980s/90s
At the peak of her career as lead singer of a legendary 1980s indie band, Meredith Vincent was driven off the international stage by a horrific incident. Now living a quiet existence in a cottage on the grounds of...
- Location(s): England, London, Woking
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): 1890s
2012 Reprint of 1898 Edition. “The War of the Worlds” is a first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist’s adventures in London and the countryside southwest of London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895-1897, it is one...
- Location(s): Surrey, Bangkok, London
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult,...
- Location(s): England, Surrey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
‘A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love’ commented the “Spectator” about this 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple, which was ignored fifty years ago because ‘editors are going mad for action and passion’...
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