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The Northern Clemency

The Northern Clemency
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading...

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1500s

The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene

The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene
  • Author(s): E V Harte
  • Location(s): Barnes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the heart of South West London, just a short stroll from the Thames, lies an enclosed and overgrown bike path and a single row of cottages. Foremost among Tinderbox Lane’s hotchpotch of loyal residents is professional Tarot reader,...

The Rabbi’s Daughter

The Rabbi’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Reva Mann
  • Location(s): Jerusalem, London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

The book starts with the early life of the writer growing up in an Orthodox household , her rebellion against her parents, and her subsequent enlightenment when she embraces her faith by marrying her husband, also from the Orthodox...

The Revenge of Samuel Stokes

The Revenge of Samuel Stokes
  • Author(s): Penelope Lively
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

What on earth is happening on the new housing estate? Washing machines smelling of roast venison, tobacco smoke coming out of television sets, greenhouses turning into Greek temples – and now a lake which has appeared out of nowhere....

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Charlotte Duckworth
  • Location(s): Okehampton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four pregnant women. Three nights of pampering at an exclusive yoga retreat. One too many deadly secrets . . . On a remote farm in the deepest Devonshire countryside, four pregnant women arrive at an exclusive yoga retreat for...

The Secret Collector

The Secret Collector
  • Author(s): Abigail Johnson
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

When an elderly eccentric collector and a troubled teen become each other’s only hope of getting their lives back on track, what can possibly go wrong? Alfred is an elderly widower who uses antiques and collectibles to fill the...

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending
  • Author(s): Julian Barnes
  • Location(s): Bristol, Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others,...

The Stranger In My Home

The Stranger In My Home
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What would YOU do if your child wasn’t yours? Utterly compelling, Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks’s new contemporary novel The Stranger In My Home, is sure to move, grip and delight her fans, along with readers of Liane Moriarty,...

The Summer House

The Summer House
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Antoinette’s world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically in an accident. He was her rock, the man she turned to for love and support, the...

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