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The Reaper

The Reaper
  • Author(s): Steven Dunne
  • Location(s): Derby
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A damaged detective. A case he’s trying to forget. A killer who won’t let him… Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he’s left his past behind him in London. But it seems a serial killer has followed him north… Brook’s...

The Retribution

The Retribution
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is McDermid’s 25th book. Hill and Jordan are on the verge of leaving the Yorkshire city of Bradfield, where Jordan has run the major investigation team that cleared up so many serial-killer cases. Over the years, a provisional...

The Return of Captain John Emmett

The Return of Captain John Emmett
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Speller
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Post WW1

Laurence Bartram life changed forever after the horrors of the Western Front, and lost his wife in childbirth. Returning home, he has little left. He receives a letter from Mary, who is the sister of his erstwhile schoolfriend, John...

The Rotters’ Club

The Rotters’ Club
  • Author(s): Jonathan Coe
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Jonathan Coe’s widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their...

The Scarlet Kimono

The Scarlet Kimono
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Japan, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1600s

Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan what happens when fear turns to love? England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance...

The Seafront Tea Rooms

The Seafront Tea Rooms
  • Author(s): Vanessa Greene
  • Location(s): Scarborough, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what they’ve been searching for. Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out...

The Sealed Letter

The Sealed Letter
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1864

This wonderful book is set in Victorian London loosely based on a scandalous divorce case, and there are features and facts that are even stranger than fiction: friends turn against each other, a stained dress, false evidence…..Helen Codrington has...

The Secret Diary of Boris Johnson Aged 13¼

The Secret Diary of Boris Johnson Aged 13¼
  • Author(s): Lucien Young
  • Location(s): Windsor
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1977/78

The newly discovered diary of Boris Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson, aged 13¼, provides a fascinating glimpse into how Boris, a lazy, bumptious and overweening child, comes to believe he should be Prime Minister. Along the way, we see him...

The Secret Keeper

The Secret Keeper
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): London, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1960s, Modern

1961: On a sweltering summer’s day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright...

The Sleeper

The Sleeper
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Era(s): Modern

Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall, married to the devoted Sam, but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train, she meets Guy...

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