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The House at Tyneford

The House at Tyneford
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book is previously titled the Novel in the Viola. In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows...

The Last Camellia

The Last Camellia
  • Author(s): Sarah Jio
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940, 2000

On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international...

The Light of the Day

The Light of the Day
  • Author(s): Graham Swift
  • Location(s): London

Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband’s affair. The visits – and the days between – lead George back into Sarah’s past...

The Lingering

The Lingering
  • Author(s): S J I Holliday
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Married couple Jack and Ali Gardiner move to a self-sufficient spiritual commune in the English Fens, desperate for fresh start. The local village is known for the witches who once resided there and Rosalind House, where the commune has...

The Lion Tamer Who Lost

The Lion Tamer Who Lost
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Be careful what you wish for… Long ago, Andrew made a childhood wish, and kept it in a silver box. When it finally comes true, he wishes he hadn’t… Long ago, Ben made a promise and he had a...

The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts

The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts
  • Author(s): Annie Darling
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Once upon a time in a crumbling London bookshop, Posy Morland spent her life lost in the pages of her favourite romantic novels. So when Bookend’s eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put...

The Millionaire’s Wife

The Millionaire’s Wife
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • Location(s): Bournemouth, The West Country
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s / 2017

Everyone has their secrets. But this one could destroy your marriage. When Anna Blackwell opens an email from an unknown sender, the shocking image attached shatters her perfect world. A woman has been killed. And Anna knows who did...

The Montana Stories

The Montana Stories
  • Author(s): Katherine Mansfield
  • Location(s): London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

Eighty years ago, at the end of May 1921, Katherine Mansfield came to Switzerland, to live at the Chalet des Sapins in Montana (now Crans-Montana) in Switzerland. She was 32 and seriously ill with tuberculosis (possibly caught, according to...

The New Wife

The New Wife
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Devon, Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors… My darling son, Sam, is marrying his childhood sweetheart and I couldn’t be prouder of the man he’s grown into. Walking out on his abusive father all those...

The Night She Disappeared

The Night She Disappeared
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): Surrey Hills
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017-2019

‘Mum, there’s some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?’ Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with...

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