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- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. With the police in hot pursuit. Scarlett is dancing in the school talent show tomorrow. Nana, who Scarlett lives with since...
- Location(s): The Pennines
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided...
- Location(s): Nottingham
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): present
Has ex-DSI Brandt become the perfect killer, or will he be a victim of his own success? Retired policeman turned killer Jeffrey Brandt has gone underground. He is even living something like a normal life in North Wales. He...
- Location(s): Veneto, West Midlands
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. During a family holiday in Italy, you get an urgent call from your sister. There’s been an accident: she hit a man with her car and he’s dead. She asks...
- Location(s): Sherwood Forest, Nottingham
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with...
- Location(s): Derby, Krakow, Warsaw
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Three generations of a Polish immigrant family are living in Derby in 1964 when the grandmother decides she wants to return to her homeland to make peace with her relatives and await death. Her war-traumatised daughter remains in Derby...
The Cottage on Wildflower Lane
- Location(s): Worcestershire
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Esther’s life isn’t perfect (whose is?) – but she’s happy enough living in her little flat with her boyfriend, Josh. But that’s about to change. Bored out of her mind in work, she wishes that something, anything, would happen...
- Location(s): Northampton
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Today
Raven’s ears flicked. ‘Dragons aren’t known for their patience.’ ‘More is the pity,’ said the unicorn. ‘Father Penny and I were about to amicably settle our differences. A dragon invading our home vastly complicates matters.’ Five months ago my...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to early 2000s
EVERY PLACE HAS ITS GHOSTS. Edenscar, a town in the Peak District, has more than most. 17 years ago, its inhabitants were hit by tragedy when a school bus veered off the road and everyone on board drowned. Everyone,...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2021/22
‘A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting’ – Emma Donoghue ‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be’ – The Times At dusk on a November evening in...
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