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A Vintage Wedding

A Vintage Wedding
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings. So they set up in business, organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings. Soon they are busy arranging other people’s Big Days. What none...

Ada’s Realm

Ada’s Realm
  • Author(s): Sharon Dodua Otoo, Jon Cho-Polizzi (translator)
  • Location(s): Ghana, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1459 to present day

WHERE IS ADA? In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby does not live. As she grieves the loss of her child, Portuguese traders become...

After You Die

After You Die
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): Waku Kungo, Peterborough
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The previous summer she had logged a number of calls detailing the harassment she and her severely disabled teenage daughter were undergoing. Now she is dead – stabbed to death whilst Holly Prentice has been left to starve upstairs....

Agatha Raisin and the Witches’ Tree

Agatha Raisin and the Witches’ Tree
  • Author(s): M C Beaton
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Cotswolds inhabitants are used to bad weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Harris, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They...

All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry

All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry
  • Author(s): Alex James
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex...

All Her Secrets

All Her Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2003 and 2023

PAXOS, GREECE 2003 A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND 2023 Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to...

All My Lies Are True

All My Lies Are True
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice Cream Girls. Verity is telling lies… And that’s why she’s about to be arrested...

All That I am

All That I am
  • Author(s): Anna Funder
  • Location(s): Germany, London, World
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

London in 1933, Germany during and after WW1, Sydney in the recent past, and New York City in 1939 are a few of the settings. I came to this book having read and very much enjoyed Stasiland: Stories from...

An Ivy Hill Christmas

An Ivy Hill Christmas
  • Author(s): Julie Klassen
  • Location(s): London, Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1800s

Richard Brockwell, the younger son of Ivy Hill’s most prominent family, hasn’t been home for Christmas in years. He prefers to live in the London townhouse, far away from Brockwell Court, the old family secret that haunts him, and...

An Unsuitable Marriage

An Unsuitable Marriage
  • Author(s): Colette Dartford
  • Location(s): Somerset, Bath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Could your marriage survive the ultimate betrayal? A sharp and emotional novel of a family under pressure, perfect for fans of Joanna Trollope and Hilary Boyd. Olivia had everything – a loving husband in Geoffrey, a thoughtful and intelligent...

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