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Summer Daydreams

Summer Daydreams
  • Author(s): Carole Matthews
  • Location(s): Milton Keynes
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Nell McNamara has a happy life: her boyfriend Olly adores her, their four-year-old daughter Petal is the centre of their world and Nell has a steady job in the local chip shop. When the chippy needs a makeover, Nell...

Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel

Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel
  • Author(s): Jane Costello
  • Location(s): Windermere
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Moonlight Hotel sits on the shore of England’s best-loved lake, Windermere, exuding vintage glamour. Lauren loves the hotel, for hidden inside its faded walls is the key to her most precious memories. So, along with her best friends,...

Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Cambridge, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to the 1970s

The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a...

Sweet William

Sweet William
  • Author(s): Iain Maitland
  • Location(s): Aldeburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sweet William is a breathtakingly dark thriller that spans forty-eight hours in the life of a desperate father and a three-year-old child in peril, who needs insulin to stay alive. It tells a story of mental illness, a foster...

Tales of a Midwife

Tales of a Midwife
  • Author(s): Maria Anderson
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over twenty years. After fainting whilst attending her first three births, Maria went from nervous trainee to assured midwife...

Teesside Steal (Nick Guymer 1)

Teesside Steal (Nick Guymer 1)
  • Author(s): John Nicholson
  • Location(s): Teesside
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nick Guymer’s life is a total mess. His dad has just died, he’s being made bankrupt, he’s getting evicted, his girlfriend has left him and Middlesbrough are 2-0 down in the UEFA Cup. But there’s a way out. His...

Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies
  • Author(s): Lisa Hall
  • Location(s): Blackheath
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

Don’t. Trust. Anyone. It was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to forget the past and embrace the future. But can you ever really start again? Or does the past follow you wherever you go? Steph and...

The Affair

The Affair
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Happily married with two small children and a circle of devoted friends, Angelica knows she should be grateful. But then she meets a charismatic South African who flirts with her and makes her feel beautiful. What starts as a...

The Affair

The Affair
  • Author(s): Hilary Boyd
  • Location(s): Europe, The West Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to the sun-drenched shores of Lake Como in the irresistible and gripping new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park, The Anniversary and The Lie Connie McCabe longs for the summer where she spends...

The Amber Shadows

The Amber Shadows
  • Author(s): Lucy Ribchester
  • Location(s): Bletchley
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s

On a delayed train, deep in the English countryside, two strangers meet. It is 1942 and they are both men of fighting age, though neither is in uniform. As strangers do in these days of war, they pass the...

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