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The Bookshop That Floated Away

The Bookshop That Floated Away
  • Author(s): Sarah Henshaw
  • Location(s): England, Staffordshire
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra’s barge. It asked for a £30,000...

The Bullet Trick

The Bullet Trick
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • Location(s): Berlin, Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The protagonist here is a Glaswegian conjurer who has seen better days. Those who know their literature of the Gothic (and Louise Welsh is certainly of that number!) will no doubt spot that the author has christened her anti-hero...

The Case of the Fool

The Case of the Fool
  • Author(s): E V Harte
  • Location(s): Barnes
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Conteporary

The Tarot talks . . . but is anyone listening? Returning home from a holiday, Tarot reader Dolly Greene learns that much has changed on her street. Squatters have taken over at No.7 Tinderbox Lane, and a mysterious Brazilian...

The Catch

The Catch
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): Nottingham, The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She says he’s perfect. I know he’s lying . . . He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me. There was something not quite right about my daughter’s new boyfriend . . ....

The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the world are all brought to life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our...

The China Bird

The China Bird
  • Author(s): Bryony Doran
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This novel portrays the brugeoning relationship between a man with a deformed spine, who has lived a quiet and rather repressed life, and a talented female art student who asks him to model for her.

The Clepsydra Stopped

The Clepsydra Stopped
  • Author(s): Ashley Prowse
  • Location(s): England, Zanzibar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A young woman living in Zanzibar meets an older, married man on a visit. The attraction is strong and mutual: she seduces him, but he is a willing victim. They embark on a brief but passionate affair that marks...

The Confession

The Confession
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2000s

One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...

The Cornish House

The Cornish House
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband, she hopes it will be the fresh start she and her step-daughter Hannah desperately need. Trevenen is beautiful but neglected, a rambling house steeped...

The Corpse at the Crystal Palace (Daisy Dalrymple #23)

The Corpse at the Crystal Palace (Daisy Dalrymple #23)
  • Author(s): Carola Dunn
  • Location(s): Crystal Palace
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1928

April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is being visited in London by her young cousins who are desperate to see the Crystal Palace. On discovering that her children’s nanny, Gilpin, has also never seen the palace, Daisy decides to make...

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