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My Name is Leon

My Name is Leon
  • Author(s): Kit de Waal
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1981

It’s 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother...

My Rude Awakening

My Rude Awakening
  • Author(s): Edward Charles Featherstone
  • Location(s): Berkshire, Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Erotica
  • Era(s): Modern

The honest, explicit and extraordinary memoir of Edward Charles Featherstone—Englishman, Businessman, Polo Player and Combat Pilot—My Rude Awakening reveals an astonishing account of life lived with passion and intensity. From the lush green Berkshire’s polo fields, through the ardours...

Mystery at the Manor (Cherringham series)

Mystery at the Manor (Cherringham series)
  • Author(s): Matthew Costello and Neil Richards
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Mystery

The elderly owner of Mogdon Manor, Victor Hamblyn, dies in a mysterious fire. But was it really an accident? Jack and Sarah are skeptical – The victim’s three middle-aged children, who all live in the village of Cherringham, are...

N-W

N-W
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

NW is Zadie Smith’s masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – after they’ve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives....

Needles and Pearls

Needles and Pearls
  • Author(s): Gil McNeil
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Slip one A year after her husband’s death, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. Knit two together The boys are thriving in their new seaside home, the wool shop is starting...

No More Secrets

No More Secrets
  • Author(s): Tricia Maw
  • Location(s): Devon, Portugal
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Charlotte Pascoe returns to Devon to work with her father in the family boatyard, she is horrified to discover that he is about to sell the site to Raphael da Silva, a property developer. Unable to pursue her...

Noblesse Oblige

Noblesse Oblige
  • Author(s): Lynne Connolly
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

A Regency romance. When Marianne Noble, a lady’s companion, visits the fashionable northern spa of Scarborough with her employer, she meets a man who attracts her instantly. However, a lady only just the right side of thirty with no...

Nordy Bank

Nordy Bank
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A group of children – similar feel to the Famous Five but greater age range – set up camp on Nordy Bank. Unsettling developments morph the book into darker fantasy but returns to the average experiences that any children...

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey
  • Author(s): Jane Austen
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Romance

Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their...

Notes From an Exhibition

Notes From an Exhibition
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction

With a lightness of touch, Patrick Gale delves into the link between creativity and mental health – the essential themes of art, death and bi-polar disorder. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves behind an extraordinary body of...

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