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What I Was

What I Was
  • Author(s): Meg Rosoff
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

I’d been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St Oswald’s, I would not have discovered the fisherman’s hut with...

Whistle in the Dark

Whistle in the Dark
  • Author(s): Emma Healey
  • Location(s): The Peak District, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2015

How do you rescue someone who has already been found? Jen’s fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana...

Wife in the North

Wife in the North
  • Author(s): Judith O'Reilly
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith’s husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow? Pregnant with number 3 Judith is about to discover...

Wild Designs

Wild Designs
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Althea is the mother of three strong-minded children – one of whom is a Buddhist – and owner of a finicky dog named Bozo. Saddled with too large a house (albeit in a beautiful Cotswold village), worrisome mortgage payments,...

Worm in the Bud (#1)

Worm in the Bud (#1)
  • Author(s): Chris Collett
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In Birmingham a local journalist is found dead in his home. A puncture wound in his arm a testimony to his death by lethal injection, the cryptic note by his side: ‘no more’, seems at first to suggest suicide...

Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?

Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?
  • Author(s): Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Nigerian accent Dictionary Huzband (pronounced auz-band) noun 1. A male partner in a marriage E.g. Yinka’s younger sister, Kemi, is married to Uche 2. A non-existent man in a non-existent marriage whose whereabouts is often questioned, usually by...

Sweat

Sweat
  • Author(s): Emma Healey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

All Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best. Nothing could break...

Before I go to Sleep

Before I go to Sleep
  • Author(s): S J Watson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Christine Lucas is a 47 year old amnesiac, living with her husband, Ben. He explains to her that the reason that every time she goes to sleep, she looses her memory is because of a hit and run accident....

Bring Me Back

Bring Me Back
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2006, 2018

The Disappearance Twelve years ago Finn’s girlfriend disappeared. The Suspicion He told the police the truth about that night. Just not quite the whole truth. The Fear Now Finn has moved on. But his past won’t stay buried…

Interpreters

Interpreters
  • Author(s): Sue Eckstein
  • Location(s): England, Germany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and modern

When Julia Rosenthal returns to the suburban estate of her childhood, the unspoken tensions that permeated her seemingly conventional family life come flooding back. Trying to make sense of the secrets and half truths, she is forced to question...

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