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Cocktail Time

Cocktail Time
  • Author(s): P G Wodehouse
  • Location(s): Berkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

An Uncle Fred novel Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off...

Corpse Way

Corpse Way
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime

A quiet summer holiday in t the picturesque Yorkshire Dales was just what Millie needed. No excitement, fresh air and huge helpings of her Grandmother’s home cooking. But Millie is drawn into an intriguing mystery that surrounds the isolated...

Cuckoo

Cuckoo
  • Author(s): Julia Crouch
  • Location(s): Brighton, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama. Rose has it all – the gorgeous children, the husband, the beautiful home. But then her best friend Polly comes to stay. Very soon, Rose’s cosy world starts to fall apart...

Dancing on Thorns

Dancing on Thorns
  • Author(s): Rebecca Horsfall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

It briefly starts out in Paris but the main location is London. Ballet and theatre – even if you are not a great fan – this is a terrific book, with a tremendous cast of characters.

Daughters-in-law

Daughters-in-law
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins...

Death of a Bookseller

Death of a Bookseller
  • Author(s): Alice Slater
  • Location(s): Walthamstow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2019

Roach – bookseller, loner and true crime obsessive – is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep. That is, until Laura joins...

Divas Don’t Knit

Divas Don’t Knit
  • Author(s): Gil McNeil
  • Location(s): England, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is the same as the Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club. Jo is looking for a new life, after the death of her philandering husband. She decides to up sticks and relocate to the coast and...

Do No Harm

Do No Harm
  • Author(s): Jack Jordan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

My child has been taken. And I’ve been given a choice… Kill a patient on the operating table. Or never see my son again. The man lies on the table in front of me. As a surgeon, it’s my...

Down the Garden Path

Down the Garden Path
  • Author(s): Beverley Nichols
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Down the Garden Path has stood the test of time as one of the world’s best-loved and most-quoted gardening books. Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the...

Eleven

Eleven
  • Author(s): Mark Watson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of radio DJ Xavier Ireland, who by night offers words of wisdom to sleepless Londoners and by day keeps himself to himself. That is, until a one-of-a-kind encounter forces him to confront his own biggest...

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