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Finding Camlann

Finding Camlann
  • Author(s): Sean Pidgeon
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Oxford, The West Country, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Archaeologist Donald Gladstone is sure that there never was a “real” King Arthur—that is, until a surprising find at Stonehenge seems to offer hard evidence of Arthur’s existence. Teaming up with Julia Llewellyn, a gifted linguist working at the...

For Tibet With Love

For Tibet With Love
  • Author(s): Isabel Losada
  • Location(s): London, Nepal, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Sometimes you just have to do something, don’t you? Sometimes an injustice comes along and you think ‘No, this cannot be’, and rather than just turn off the TV, you know it’s time to act’ So begins Isabel Losada’s...

Ghost Girl

Ghost Girl
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2012 looking back to 1960s

Hammersmith, London… A year after her father’s death, the detective’s daughter inherits a strange new case. Terry Darnell was a detective with Hammersmith police. Now his daughter Stella has found a folder of photographs hidden in his cellar. Why...

Ghost Light

Ghost Light
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom...

Ghosts of the West

Ghosts of the West
  • Author(s): Alec Marsh
  • Location(s): England, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime in a sleepy English town, he ropes in his old friend Professor Ernest Drabble to help him investigate. The crime is a grave robbery, and as Drabble...

Giotto’s Hand

Giotto’s Hand
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): England, Italy, Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

General Bottando of Rome’s Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed ‘Giotto’, is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat...

God’s Own Country

God’s Own Country
  • Author(s): Ross Raisin
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sam Marsdyke, is a man of the Moors. At times everything feels sadistic and menacing, set against a backdrop of Gothic moorland where Sam stalks his prey, both animal and human.

Good Husbands

Good Husbands
  • Author(s): Cate Ray
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘THE MOST RIVETING AND UNFLINCHING HE SAID/SHE SAID NOVEL TO DATE … ABSOLUTELY STAGGERING, INSANELY GRIPPING AND WHOLLY UNPUTDOWNABLE.’ MAY COBB, AUTHOR OF THE HUNTING WIVES Jess, Priyanka and Stephanie are all happily married to men they think they...

Great North Road

Great North Road
  • Author(s): Peter F Hamilton
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 2120s

When attending a Newcastle murder scene, Detective Sidney Hurst finds a dead North family clone. Yet none have been reported missing. And in 2122, twenty years ago, a North clone billionaire was horrifically murdered in the same manner on...

Guilty Tiger

Guilty Tiger
  • Author(s): Chris Brown
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Merck cocaine, Keith Richards’ drug of choice is back. But there’s one big difference to the uber coca that fuelled the Rolling Stones tour in 1975 – it’s been modified so it’s undetectable in the human blood system. It’s...

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