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A Christmas Miracle For The Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #6)

A Christmas Miracle For The Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #6)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1942-1943

Manchester, 1942. There are surprises in store for the railway girls this festive season… When Cordelia’s daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn’t meet the approval of her father, Cordelia is reminded of her own first love...

A Death in the Afternoon (The Clapham Trilogy Book 2)

A Death in the Afternoon (The Clapham Trilogy Book 2)
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): Clapham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1948

Summer 1948 London swelters amid post-war reconstruction, while continued rationing and the black-market fuel the rising crime wave. The empires of gangland bosses grow and thrive, protected by corruption and bribery. During a party in Clapham a student nurse...

A Perfect Stranger

A Perfect Stranger
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two marriages. Three little lies. Someone’s going to die… I hold my breath as my handsome husband walks through the door. I’ve planned the perfect surprise birthday party for him. Our friends are gathered and the champagne is flowing....

A Perfectly Good Man

A Perfectly Good Man
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

There’s a particular strain of English mildness that carries within it a finely wrought undercurrent of viciousness. It’s there in the title of Patrick Gale’s new novel, A Perfectly Good Man, which you could either take literally – that...

A Sister’s Promise

A Sister’s Promise
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Udupi, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two sisters. Bound by blood. Torn apart by love. My sister – the glue that held our family together and the gatekeeper to the memories of our shared childhood. The girl I made a pact with – to protect...

A St Ives Christmas Mystery

A St Ives Christmas Mystery
  • Author(s): Deborah Fowler
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When tragedy brings Merrin McKenzie back to St Ives, she knows adjusting might take time, even with the comfort of Christmas back in her hometown. Stepping back from her career as a solicitor, she agrees to clean holiday rentals...

Adelaide

Adelaide
  • Author(s): Genevieve Wheeler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 2010s

On an otherwise ordinary day, 26-year-old American expat Adelaide Williams walks into a London hospital and asks for help. Something’s not right. She doesn’t feel like herself any more. For the past year, she’s been dating Rory Hughes, the...

And Then There Was You

And Then There Was You
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lonely people. One song to change their lives… Merryn Rowe adores her life in St Ives. The café she owns and the community she serves are her much-needed second chance after a heart-breaking divorce. But as she gazes...

Bad For Good

Bad For Good
  • Author(s): Graham Bartlett
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How far would you go? The murder of a promising footballer, son of Brighton’s highest-ranking police officer, means Detective Superintendent Jo Howe has a complicated and sensitive case on her hands. The situation becomes yet more desperate following devastating...

Bad Sons

Bad Sons
  • Author(s): Oliver Tidy
  • Location(s): Romney Marsh
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

David Booker returns to Romney Marsh on the south coast of England for a holiday. He is expecting to spend time helping his aunt and uncle pack up the stock of their second-hand bookshop in preparation for a happy...

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