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A Gathering Storm

A Gathering Storm
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2011/1935

From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a gripping story of family secrets, all-consuming love and the chaos of war. 2011. When Lucy’s troubled father Tom passes away, she travels to Cornwall to visit his childhood home – the once-beautiful Carlyon Manor. Before...

A Girl Called Justice

A Girl Called Justice
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Romney Marsh
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

Missing maids, suspicious teachers and a snow storm to die for… For a fearless girl called Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, it’s just the start of a spine-tingling first term at Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk....

A Glastonbury Romance

A Glastonbury Romance
  • Author(s): John Cowper Powys
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Medieval

First published in 1932, this is an epic novel of terrific force and lyrical intensity interweaving the ancient with the modern as it probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of Glastonbury and its association with the legend of the...

A God In Ruins

A God In Ruins
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd – would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures...

A Good Death

A Good Death
  • Author(s): H L Davis
  • Location(s): Cusco, Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

‘A good death is better than a bad conscience,’ said Sophie. 1983 – Georgie, Theo, Sophie and Helena, four disparate young Cambridge undergraduates, set out to scale Ausangate, one of the highest and most sacred peaks in the Andes....

A Haunting at Holkham

A Haunting at Holkham
  • Author(s): Anne Glenconner
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s/1950s

January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, the eldest daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business trip when she is called home after a sudden death in the family. She returns to Holkham Hall to...

A History of Burning

A History of Burning
  • Author(s): Janika Oza
  • Location(s): Canada, East Africa, London, Uganda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

India, 1898. Pirbhai is thirteen when he steps into a dhow on the vague promise of work; his family is suffering and he will do anything to help. The boat takes him to labour for the British on the...

A Home From Home

A Home From Home
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sunshine, cider and family secrets… Dragonfly Farm has been a home and a haven for generations of Melchiors – arch rivals to the Culbones, the wealthy family who live on the other side of the river. Life there is...

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
  • Author(s): Helen Jukes
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper’s year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers of H is For Hawk and The Outrun Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and...

A House for Alice

A House for Alice
  • Author(s): Diana Evans
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her three children are divided on whether she stays or goes, and in the wake of their father’s death, the imagined...

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