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Time’s Legacy

Time’s Legacy
  • Author(s): Barbara Erskine
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern, Early AD

Ancient secrets buried deep in Glastonbury’s past. And one woman’s quest to finally set them free. Cambridge present day: Following the death of her mother, Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest – a misshapen sphere of crystal known as...

Tomorrow’s Past

Tomorrow’s Past
  • Author(s): Emma Dally
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

London’s Kentish Town in the Thirties and Forties teems with life in every street and alleyway. It is a place where everyone knows everyone else, where lives are interwoven in intricate webs and where feuds are passed down from...

Too Much Trouble in Paradise

Too Much Trouble in Paradise
  • Author(s): Michelle Betham
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Tenerife
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Molly Parker is a DWAG – a darts wife and girlfriend. Or rather, she’s an ex-DWAG after divorcing Paul “Bad Lad” Parker, a professional darts player and the self-pronounced Geordie pantomime villain of the sport, after catching him aiming...

Towards the End of the Morning

Towards the End of the Morning
  • Author(s): Michael Frayn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The true Fleet Street life that Frayn describes is long gone, but this book is tremendously evocative of journalism in the 1960s. Dyson is running small columns but yearns for bigger things. Work is carried out late morning and...

Towers of Silence

Towers of Silence
  • Author(s): Cath Staincliffe
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s the countdown to Christmas and PI Sal Kilkenny is exhausted even thinking about the festive season – her life as a single mother is hectic at the best of times. So when she is asked to investigate a...

Trio

Trio
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world...

Turnstone (Di Joe Faraday)

Turnstone (Di Joe Faraday)
  • Author(s): Graham Hurley
  • Location(s): Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday. Now Emma Maloney’s dad has gone missing. Faraday thinks he may have been...

Twelve Secrets

Twelve Secrets
  • Author(s): Robert Gold
  • Location(s): Putney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ben Harper’s life changed forever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. It was a crime that shocked the nation and catapulted Ben’s family and their idyllic hometown, Haddley, into the spotlight. Twenty years on,...

Two Dark Tales: Jack Squat and The Niche

Two Dark Tales: Jack Squat and The Niche
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Lazio, England
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A pair of disturbing novellas from the master of the literary uncanny There are four ways in but no way out… In Jack Squat , unemployed Gordon and his partner Omar see a money-making opportunity helping expats buy homes...

Under an English Heaven

Under an English Heaven
  • Author(s): Robert Radcliffe
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand inhabitants. For Billy Street, fourteen,...

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