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Sleeping with a Psychopath

Sleeping with a Psychopath
  • Author(s): Carolyn Woods
  • Location(s): The West Country
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2012 onwards

A Divorced Woman. A Dangerous Man. A Devastating Affair. ‘You’re right. It is totally extraordinary. My life is like a film; you couldn’t make it up … But there’s something I have to tell you,’ he confided, as he...

Strangers

Strangers
  • Author(s): Anita Brookner
  • Location(s): London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A beautifully crafted book, with an elegant style. Paul Burgess lives a quiet bachelor life in London. To avoid an invitation to spend Christmas with his cousin’s widow, Helena, he decides on a trip to Venice. Here, at age...

The Art of Hiding

The Art of Hiding
  • Author(s): Amanda Prowse
  • Location(s): Somerset, Southampton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nina McCarrick lives the perfect life, until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels. Alone, bereft and faced with a mountain of debt, Nina quickly loses her life...

The Day I lost you

The Day I lost you
  • Author(s): Fionnuala Kearney
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE DAY I LOST YOU WAS THE DAY I DISCOVERED I NEVER REALLY KNEW YOU When Jess’s daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes. Jess’s first instinct is to protect Rose, Anna’s five-year-old daughter. But then...

The Feng Shui Detective goes West

The Feng Shui Detective goes West
  • Author(s): Nury Vittachi
  • Location(s): London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

C.F. Wong, the Feng Shui practiioner meets a client onboard a cruise ship. Murder, Chinese Mafia and a commission to check out the balance of a plane owned by the British Government lead him to come into contact with...

The Grown Up To-Do List

The Grown Up To-Do List
  • Author(s): Jennifer Joyce
  • Location(s): North-West England
  • Genre(s): New Adult, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her friends are bossing life – is she being left behind? 25-year-old Cleo is happy enough. She likes her job in the fish and chip shop in the North West seaside town where she grew up. But her world...

The Guest House

The Guest House
  • Author(s): Robin Morgan-Bentley
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jamie and Victoria are expecting their first baby. With a few weeks to go, they head off for a final weekend break in a remote part of the North Pennines. The small and peaceful guesthouse is the ideal location...

The House at the end of Hope Street

The House at the end of Hope Street
  • Author(s): Menna Van Praag
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

In true magical realism this book follows the lives of different women over a period of 99 days at various stages and ages of their lives. Alba finds herself entering the house after her life implodes and it is...

The Ice is Singing

The Ice is Singing
  • Author(s): Jane Rogers
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of a woman on the run from her husband, her children, herself. Driving through the snowbound Yorkshire countryside, stopping at anonymous bed and breakfasts, prepared to do anything to duck memory, she begins to write...

The Night Of The Sleepover

The Night Of The Sleepover
  • Author(s): Kerry Wilkinson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1999 / The Present Day

Four girls close their eyes. Only one wakes up. Leah and her three best friends get changed into their pyjamas, eat pizza and argue about what film to watch. They laugh together until the early hours. But the next...

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