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A Murder of Quality

A Murder of Quality
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley is asked by an...

A Mystery On Tyneside

A Mystery On Tyneside
  • Author(s): Eileen Thornton
  • Location(s): Tyneside
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Agnes Lockwood Mysteries Book 4) Agnes Lockwood is no stranger to crime scenes, but even she is shocked when she finds the body of a man lying on the floor of the ladies’ room. With her partner Alan –...

A New Life for Ariana Byrne

A New Life for Ariana Byrne
  • Author(s): Liz Hurley
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

What happens after all your dreams come true? Ariana Byrne knows how to survive. After becoming guardian to her four little sisters after their parents died when she was only eighteen, she had to grow up quickly. Now she’s...

A Novel Solution

A Novel Solution
  • Author(s): Sue Clark
  • Location(s): Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020s

‘It’s a bit tricky to find. Just down the lane from the old ochre pit.’ With these words, Trish, badly bruised by life, is catapulted into the world of celebrity author, Amanda Turner. Her marriage on the rocks, no...

A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills
  • Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Location(s): London, Nagasaki
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s and post WW2

In his highly acclaimed debut, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot...

A Patient Fury

A Patient Fury
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modernn

When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death. Three bodies discovered – a family obliterated –...

A Perfect Duet. A Diary of Roy and Hayley Cropper: An Unofficial Coronation Street Companion

A Perfect Duet. A Diary of Roy and Hayley Cropper: An Unofficial Coronation Street Companion
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

From their first meeting, Hayley Patterson and Roy Cropper were destined to become one of television’s most loved and enduring couples. From their declaration of love, two weddings, the trials of being ‘different’ and the heartbreak of illness, the...

A Perfect Square

A Perfect Square
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): The Dandenongs, Devon, Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When pianist Ginny Smith moves back to her mother’s house in Sassafras after her breakup with the degenerate Garth, synaesthetic and eccentric artist Harriet Brassington-Smythe contrives a creative collaboration to lift her daughter’s spirits: an exhibition of paintings and...

A Pilgrimage to Eternity

A Pilgrimage to Eternity
  • Author(s): Timothy Egan
  • Location(s): England, France, Italy, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

At a time when Britain, America, and much of Europe have never been so secular, Timothy Egan sets out on a thousand-mile pilgrimage along an ancient route, through the theological cradle of Christianity, to explore one of the biggest...

A Place in Time

A Place in Time
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Romance, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century England

Three women in a time not their own… For Adela Jenks, the lure of England and time away with her closest friends is a much-needed escape. Her hectic life as a gourmet chef and a string of failed relationships...

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