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1977 (The Red Riding Quartet)

1977 (The Red Riding Quartet)
  • Author(s): David Peace
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Fiction set in Yorkshire. If you thought fiction couldn’t get darker than David Peace’s extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the ‘Red Riding Quartet’, is one long nightmare. Its heroes...

A Parcel for Anna Browne

A Parcel for Anna Browne
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Browne is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. Her day job as a receptionist in bustling London isn’t exactly her dream, yet she has everything she wants. But someone thinks Anna Browne deserves more . . ....

Acid Casuals

Acid Casuals
  • Author(s): Nicholas Blincoe
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Estela, who used to be Paul but has just had the operation, returns to Manchester on a business trip. The business – to kill her ex-boss, a club owner and money launderer – entails encounters with a whole posse...

And Then It Happened

And Then It Happened
  • Author(s): Linda Green
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How would you feel if the only man you’d ever loved was taken away from you? And imagine how he’d feel if he hadn’t really been taken away at all – but couldn’t find a way to let you...

Death Comes First

Death Comes First
  • Author(s): Hilary Bonner
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

If you can’t trust your family, where do you turn . . . Joyce Mildmay’s life is torn apart when her husband Charlie is killed in a tragic yachting accident. Though financially secure, Joyce is left to raise their three...

Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You

Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You
  • Author(s): Annie Lyons
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s looking back

‘An exquisitely poignant tale of life, friendship and facing death… Everyone should read this book’ Ruth Hogan, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things Eudora Honeysett is done – with all of it. Having seen first-hand...

From My Heart

From My Heart
  • Author(s): Linda Nolan
  • Location(s): Blackpool
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

‘While I don’t have any choice in how long I have to live, I do have a choice in how I spend the time I have. And I’ve chosen not to spend it constantly stressing about cancer. I’ve chosen...

Mad About You

Mad About You
  • Author(s): Sinead Moriarty
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sinéad Moriarty’s riveting novel, Mad About You, makes you stop and think about the importance of trust in relationships – how fragile it can be, how easily damaged, how hard to repair. Sinéad combines the storytelling genius of Jodi Picoult, and...

My Other Husband

My Other Husband
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton, Leeds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022 looking back to mid 1990s

Cleo Forsum is a bestselling novelist turned scriptwriter whose TV series, ‘The Baking Detective’ is a huge success. But now she has decided to walk away from it all and wants to divorce her husband, Wallace. But what is...

Siren Spirit

Siren Spirit
  • Author(s): Elizabeth M Hurst
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): 1784 and 2015

Emma McVeigh is emotionally adrift. Broken-hearted after her marriage breakup, she has escaped city life and sought solace in a quintessential English village. Allowing herself time to regroup seems like the best course of action in her life right...

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