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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...

Cambridge Blue

Cambridge Blue
  • Author(s): Alison Bruce
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

DC Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive and the youngest detective at Cambridge’s Parkside Station. He is the first on the scene when the body of a young woman is discovered on Midsummer Common and for the first time in...

Can You Hear Me?

Can You Hear Me?
  • Author(s): Jake Jones
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic. A young man has stopped breathing in a supermarket toilet. A pedestrian with a nasty head injury won’t let the crew near him on a...

Channel Shore

Channel Shore
  • Author(s): Tom Fort
  • Location(s): The English Channel
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as...

Children of the Wav

Children of the Wav
  • Author(s): John Godwin
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Set in the late 18th century, this powerful historical novel focuses on the city of Bristol and its connections with the slave trade at a time when the abolitionist movement is gathering momentum in England. A well-respected Bristol councillor...

China Court

China Court
  • Author(s): Rumer Godden
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named China Court. Her grandmother’s recent death has set in motion events that threaten Tracy’s...

Christmas at the Beach Hut

Christmas at the Beach Hut
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Devon, Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Especially Lizzy Kingham. But this year, she is feeling unloved and underappreciated by her family. The present-buying, decorating and food shopping have all been left to her. So she wonders . . . what would happen if she ran...

City of The Mind

City of The Mind
  • Author(s): Penelope Lively
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Architect Matthew Halland lets himself be influences by the blend of past and present, memories of childhood, his daughter and his marriage that has ended – architecture is his metaphor for life moving along and change. He is now...

Close to Home

Close to Home
  • Author(s): Cara Hunter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2016

HOW CAN A CHILD GO MISSING WITHOUT A TRACE? Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything – or at least that’s what they’re saying. DI Adam Fawley...

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