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Bamboo Heart

Bamboo Heart
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): London, Penang, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s and 1980s

The First in the Bamboo Trilogy. Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and...

Blood Red City

Blood Red City
  • Author(s): Rod Reynolds
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When crusading journalist Lydia Wright is sent a video of an apparent murder on a London train, she thinks she’s found the story to revive her career. But she can’t find a victim, much less the killers, and the...

Bone China

Bone China
  • Author(s): Roma Tearne
  • Location(s): London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London. Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five children and a crumbling marriage....

Calling Mrs Christmas

Calling Mrs Christmas
  • Author(s): Carole Matthews
  • Location(s): England, Lapland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassie Smith has been out of work for a while but she has an idea. Drawing on her love of Christmas, she begins charging for small things: wrapping presents: writing cards: tree-decorating. She’s soon in huge demand and Cassie’s...

Coast

Coast
  • Author(s): Nick Crane
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2010

This is the first book to be written by a Coast presenter in a narrative format and it will become the definitive guide to our coastline. Nick Crane brings his geographer’s eye and love of the British landscape to...

Daughters of Cornwall

Daughters of Cornwall
  • Author(s): Fern Britton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919 forward to 2020

Love can last a lifetime. But can it last three? 1918 World War One is over. But Clara’s fight for her family is only just beginning… 1947 Clara’s daughter, Hannah, is in love for the first time – but...

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead
  • Author(s): Mark Roberts
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A serial killer. A hero to some. A wanted criminal to others. The man who calls himself Vindici broke out of prison last year. Now he’s filmed himself torturing and killing paedophiles in Liverpool’s affluent suburbs. Half the city...

Death Among The Diamonds

Death Among The Diamonds
  • Author(s): Fliss Chester
  • Location(s): Newbury
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1925

Everyone in 1920s London knows the Honourable Cressida Fawcett: fiercely independent (though never apart from her little pug Ruby), lover of martinis and interior designer extraordinaire. She’s solved many crimes of fashion… so how about murder? Cressida Fawcett is...

Death Down The Aisle

Death Down The Aisle
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

The society wedding of the decade has everything: the blushing bride, beautiful flowers… and the groom arrested before he can walk down the aisle? Thank goodness Lady Swift is on the guest list! Lady Eleanor Swift isn’t normally one...

Death in the East

Death in the East
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Assam, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London beat when...

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