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Coffee Tea The Caribbean & Me

Coffee Tea The Caribbean & Me
  • Author(s): Caroline James
  • Location(s): Barbados, Caribbean, Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction

“A story about friendship and loss…is there hope for those of a certain age?” ‘The time to be happy is now…’ Jo remembers her late husband’s words but is struggling to face the lonely future that lies ahead. A...

Maranatha

Maranatha
  • Author(s): John Mullen
  • Location(s): County Donegal, Salisbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Sarah is in a loveless marriage with an apathetic husband and grown up children. Diagnosed as having a life threatening illness, she is shocked at the coldness of her family s reaction. After undergoing radical treatment in hospital Sarah...

Pieces of You

Pieces of You
  • Author(s): Ella Harper
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As compelling and powerful as Jojo Moyes and Liane Moriarty, PIECES OF YOU is a heart-rending, but ultimately life-affirming novel about a love tested to its limits. The perfect marriage. A devastating secret. An impossible choice. Lucy was always...

The Examiner

The Examiner
  • Author(s): Janice Hallett
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 2023/24

Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now… The mature students of Royal Hastings University’s new art course have been nothing but trouble. From accusations of theft and setting fire to one another’s artwork, to a rumoured extramarital affair...

The Heatwave

The Heatwave
  • Author(s): Katerina Diamond
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two bad things happened that summer: A stranger arrived. And the first girl disappeared. In the wake of the crime that rocked her community, Felicity fled, knowing more than she let on. But sixteen years later, her new life...

100 Days on Holy Island. A Writer’s Exile.

100 Days on Holy Island.  A Writer’s Exile.
  • Author(s): Peter Mortimer
  • Location(s): Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2002

A quirky, moving account of the author’s self-imposed exile to Holy Island, a remote island off the Northumberland coast, cut off from the mainland twice a day. Peter Mortimer is a playwright and poet, and this is his personal...

33 Women

33 Women
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Arundel
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited at her riverside home in Arundel to pick up the pieces. But someone is missing – their middle sister, Vanessa,...

59 Memory Lane

59 Memory Lane
  • Author(s): Celia Anderson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

May Rosevere has reached the grand old age of one-hundred-and-ten, thanks to several slices of toast with butter every morning, a glass (or two) of port, and the wonders of the Cornish sea air – or so she tells...

59 Minutes

59 Minutes
  • Author(s): Holly Seddon
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Future

If you knew you had fifty-nine minutes until everything and everyone you love would be lost forever, what would you do with that time? It’s an ordinary evening. People are coming home from work, cooking dinner for their children,...

73 Dove Street

73 Dove Street
  • Author(s): Julie Owen Moylan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

‘Set in my end of 1950s London, the sense of time and place is beautifully evocative, the ghost of the war, and the sense of societal change about to come. It’s about pride and shame and love and loss...

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