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Pendulum

Pendulum
  • Author(s): Adam Hamdy
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘James Patterson calls it “one of the best thrillers of the year”, and it is plain to see why…told at a great pace, has a strong central character and a snaking plot’ – Daily Mail You wake. Confused. Disorientated....

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Just an innocent invitation… When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle of the home’s owner, she meets wealthy American businessman...

Piglet

Piglet
  • Author(s): Lottie Hazell
  • Location(s): Oxford, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning...

Play to the End

Play to the End
  • Author(s): Robert Goddard
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2002

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, actor Toby Flood arrives in Brighton for the final performances of Lodger in the Throat following a ten-week regional tour. The tour had not gone well, with a hoped-for West End transfer unlikely to eventuate....

Porterhouse Blue

Porterhouse Blue
  • Author(s): Tom Sharpe
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master,...

Prodigal

Prodigal
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): South East England
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The phone rings, in that short-tempered peremptory way machines have. He almost doesn’t answer; he’s been fending off unwanted offers of insurance, unlimited broadband, crates of discount wine for months now. His name must be on some list somewhere...

Reprisal

Reprisal
  • Author(s): Alfie Robbins
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Some of the most vibrant and varied crime writing around anywhere is centred on the evocative industrial fishing port of Hull, with its shadowy wind-swept streets, its hard-bitten attitudes, its drugs, its gangsters and yet its underlying humanity that...

Salt

Salt
  • Author(s): Jeremy Page
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

‘These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel and cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes and still darker shadows came over the coast. Several hours later they’d...

Sandman

Sandman
  • Author(s): Ian Kingsley
  • Location(s): Bournemouth, Christchurch (Dorset)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lazing through hot summer days at their beach hut, life seems just about perfect for the Vincent family – until their peace is shattered by murder. An incident between Paul Vincent and Stevie Clarke – an unbalanced beachcomber known...

Secrets and Shadows

Secrets and Shadows
  • Author(s): Evelyn Orange
  • Location(s): London, Sheffield, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940, a young woman makes a decision that will have repercussions for generations to follow… On the eve of VE Day 1945, six-year-old Alexandra Graham is torn from her comfortable wartime existence in Scotland, to begin an uneasy...

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