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Bageye at the Wheel

Bageye at the Wheel
  • Author(s): Colin Grant
  • Location(s): Luton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Back in the early 1970s, Luton’s population is mainly white and working-class, with a handful of Afro-Caribbean families. Among them are the Grants and, in the person of the eponymous Bageye, they have a formidable paterfamilias. Bageye takes his...

Becoming Ted

Becoming Ted
  • Author(s): Matt Cain
  • Location(s): Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ted Ainsworth has always worked at his family’s ice-cream business in the quiet, fictional Lancashire town of St Luke’s-on-Sea. But the truth is, he’s never wanted to work for the family firm – he doesn’t even like ice-cream, though...

Before You Die

Before You Die
  • Author(s): Samantha Hayes
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

D.I. Lorraine Fisher returns to her home town, Radcote, in fictional South Warwickshire, to stay with separated sister Jo and her nephew Freddie. The town has seen a spate of teenage suicides and when young homeless man, Dean, complete with...

Bella Summer takes a chance

Bella Summer takes a chance
  • Author(s): Michele Gorman
  • Location(s): London

When is enough not enough? Bella’s career and relationship are her life’s foundationwear: not glamorous and perhaps a bit binding, but supportive enough… until she realizes that they are not enough. Her life is sagging badly. She’s never been...

Beneath an Irish Sky

Beneath an Irish Sky
  • Author(s): Isabella Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, England, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The past is never over … Jack Stewart thought he’d put the past behind him. On the surface, he has everything – success, money, a big house and he is never short of an attractive woman by his side,...

Breaking Light

Breaking Light
  • Author(s): Karin Altenberg
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to childhood

Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he...

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull

Broken Dreams is the first urban thriller from Hull based writer ,Nick Quantrill, featuring private detective Joe Geraghty. Northern gritty realism. A cracking authentic crime thriller Joe Geraghty, Private Investigator, is used to struggling from one case to the...

Broken Greek

Broken Greek
  • Author(s): Pete Paphides
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s, early 80s

When Pete’s parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no money and only a little bit of English. They opened a fish-and-chip shop in Acocks Green. The Great...

By Any Other Name

By Any Other Name
  • Author(s): Jodi Picoult
  • Location(s): England, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 16th Century / Contemporary

What if the greatest writer of all time isn’t who we think he is? What if he isn’t even a he? Step back four hundred years and discover the female author who hid behind the mask of the man...

By Battersea Bridge

By Battersea Bridge
  • Author(s): Janet Davey
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, Hampshire, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her self-confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are disapproved of – the small...

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