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Amazing Grace Adams

Amazing Grace Adams
  • Author(s): Fran Littlewood
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn’t scream or...

An American Duchess

An American Duchess
  • Author(s): Sharon Page
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s onward

At the height of the Roaring Twenties, New York heiress Zoe Gifford longs for the freedoms promised by the Jazz Age. Headstrong and brazen, but bound by her father’s will to marry before she can access his fortune, Zoe...

An Ocean Apart

An Ocean Apart
  • Author(s): Sarah Lee
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Hertfordshire, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19502

It’s 1954 and, in Barbados, Ruby Haynes spots an advertisement for young women to train as nurses for the new National Health Service in Great Britain. Her sister, Connie, takes some persuading, but soon the sisters are on their...

Anderby Wold

Anderby Wold
  • Author(s): Winifred Holtby
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary’s neglected inheritance, her beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love – and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire...

Apartment 16

Apartment 16
  • Author(s): Adam Nevill
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it’s been that way for fifty years. Until...

Balancing Act

Balancing Act
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): Stoke on Trent
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Susie Moran is a success. She has founded and run her own highly profitable company, and now her three daughters are all involved in the business. Rooted in the traditions of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries, and producing charming, useable objects...

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): Surrey, Bangkok, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult,...

Being Dead

Being Dead
  • Author(s): Jim Crace
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Zoologists, Jospeh and Celice, return to the fictional beach in England, where they first made love more than thirty years before. But this visit comes with a very high price. The couple are brutally and senselessly murdered on this...

Blackheath

Blackheath
  • Author(s): Adam Baron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Blackheath is a groundbreaking and sharply comic tale of life after children, revealing the awful truth at the heart of modern family life: love is not enough. Amelia has everything: two perfect children, a successful husband who loves her, and...

Breakfast at Wimbledon

Breakfast at Wimbledon
  • Author(s): Jack M Bickham
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

Brad Smith is to face McEnroe at Wimbledon. He has orders from the CIA to keep an eye on Irish terrorism and keep tennis safe. Set amidst the social whirl of Wimbledon fortnight, he pairs up with a pretty...

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