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The Other Guest

The Other Guest
  • Author(s): Helen Cooper
  • Location(s): Derby, Lake Garda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present looking back

One year ago, Leah’s twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, returning to Italy for the first time since Amy’s death, Leah is shocked to find her family seem...

The Pottery Gardener: Flowers and Hens at the Emma Bridgewater Factory

The Pottery Gardener: Flowers and Hens at the Emma Bridgewater Factory
  • Author(s): Arthur Parkinson
  • Location(s): Stoke on Trent
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography
  • Era(s): 21st century

The Emma Bridgewater factory in Stoke-on-Trent is a mecca for lovers of its iconic pottery, known nationally for its designs featuring florals and farmyard animals. Today, it is a thriving visitor attraction; but tucked within is a walled garden...

The Quickening

The Quickening
  • Author(s): Rhiannon Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
  • Era(s): Post war period

Country houses can be such spooky places and Rhiannon Ward who has written the Derbyshire crime novels shows us one with her new novel The Quickening. Her gothic novel is about Clewer Hall. It is the country house shutting...

The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child

The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child
  • Author(s): Heather Martin
  • Location(s): Kirkby Lonsdale, Belfast, The Midlands, United States (USA), Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Present

Lee Child is the enigmatic powerhouse behind the bestselling Jack Reacher novels. With millions of devoted fans across the globe, and over a hundred million copies of his books sold in more than forty languages, he is that rarity,...

The Scarlet Forest

The Scarlet Forest
  • Author(s): A E Chandler
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Era(s): Medieval

You are invited underneath the great greenwood tree to hear how a young man became a hero, and a hero became a legend. When Robin takes a shortcut through Sherwood Forest, the path he chooses leads not to Nottingham’s...

The Shakespeare Sisters

The Shakespeare Sisters
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Around WW2

Four motherless sisters, raised by a distant father in a crumbling, ivy-choked country estate. A terrible war on the horizon that will tear an ancient family apart. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in...

The Shopgirl of Ironbridge

The Shopgirl of Ironbridge
  • Author(s): Mollie Walton
  • Location(s): Shrewsbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

Ironbridge, 1892. When seventeen-year-old Maria Keay is offered an exciting job in a department store in Shrewsbury, she is determined to follow her dream, even if that means leaving behind her childhood sweetheart, Charlie. At first, Maria’s new life...

The Shrouded Path

The Shrouded Path
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1957 / 2014

The past won’t stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the...

The Speech

The Speech
  • Author(s): Andrew Smith
  • Location(s): Wolverhampton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

His words threatened rivers of blood…and they fought him with hope… April 20th, 1968: Enoch Powell, MP for Wolverhampton South West, gives a speech that shakes a community and Britain to its very core. Words that provoke, that divide...

The Spoiled Heart

The Spoiled Heart
  • Author(s): Sunjeev Sahota
  • Location(s): Chesterfield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In one night, Nayan lost everything. Years later, his world is at risk again. Nayan has fought hard to move on, losing himself in his political work, trying to make a better world. A fresh challenge arrives with newcomer...

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