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Nothing Important Happened Today

Nothing Important Happened Today
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): London, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nine suicides One Cult No leader Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that...

Off Target

Off Target
  • Author(s): Eve Smith
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Near Future

In an all-too-possible near future, when genetic engineering has become the norm for humans, not just crops, parents are prepared to take incalculable risks to ensure that their babies are perfect … altering genes that may cause illness, and more… Susan has been trying...

On Gallows Hill

On Gallows Hill
  • Author(s): Harriet J Kent
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

Michal Morey was born on the Isle of Wight in the late 17th century. Employed as a woodcutter and married to Beth, they live in a run down cottage on the edge of Pan Wood. Michal was renowned for...

Once in a house on fire

Once in a house on fire
  • Author(s): Andrea Ashworth
  • Location(s): Manchester, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1970s, 1980s

Given her start in life, it is all the more remarkable that Andrea Ashworth should have turned out to be an Oxford graduate with such a compelling memoir under her belt. Her father died when she was five, her...

Once Upon a Timepiece

Once Upon a Timepiece
  • Author(s): Starr Wood
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various, Modern

When Conrad Sands returns a wristwatch to an old flame after 20 years apart, a remarkable chain of events begins. The watch passes through the hands of a gold-digger, a journalist, an enchantress and a professor. It touches the...

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe
  • Author(s): Jon Teckman
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...

Original Skin

Original Skin
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is...

Our Sister Killjoy

Our Sister Killjoy
  • Author(s): Ama Ata Aidoo
  • Location(s): England, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Out of Africa with her degree and her all seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to makes sense of it all. What is she doing...

Out of Time

Out of Time
  • Author(s): Martin Blake
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Researcher Rosemary Torrance gets an unwelcome surprise when she encounters a long-lost manuscript which has turned up in the University Library in the most mysterious of circumstances. Through the ancient lanes and courtyards of Cambridge, Rosemary’s life is invaded...

Pantheon

Pantheon
  • Author(s): Sam Bourne
  • Location(s): New Haven, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set in 1940, James Zennor is an Oxford don who was wounded in the Spanish Civil War, and is in no fit state to fight the Nazis. His wife and son vanish and he eventually finds leads that take...

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