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Estella’s Revenge

Estella’s Revenge
  • Author(s): Barbara Havelocke
  • Location(s): Kent, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Barbara Copperthwaite writing as Barbara Havelocke You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to...

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
  • Author(s): Chris Cleave
  • Location(s): London, Malta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Winner of the 2017 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War –...

Fake Alibi

Fake Alibi
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wheelchair-using woman is strangled and her son, Eddy, is arrested. When his alibi falls apart, the police are satisfied that he is guilty. Only Geraldine doubts whether Eddy is cunning enough to kill his mother and cover his...

Flight

Flight
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century/Early 21st century

Set around London/South East England and mainly in Cornwall. When Wren Irving’s numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn’t tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter Phoebe...

Gallows Wood

Gallows Wood
  • Author(s): Louisa Scarr
  • Location(s): New Forest, Southampton
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PC Lucy Halliday #1 When a hand is found in Gallows Wood, PC Lucy Halliday and her specialist search dog Moss must find the rest of the body. What they uncover is a killer’s dumping ground. Like every case...

Gold

Gold
  • Author(s): Chris Cleave
  • Location(s): Manchester, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book opens at the 2004 Olympic Games with Zoe about to race for gold in the Women’s Sprint Cycling event. Three GB cyclists, Kate, Jack and Zoe who go back years. Kate and Zoe are rivals. This is...

Grave Island

Grave Island
  • Author(s): Andrew Smyth
  • Location(s): East Africa, London, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

When Philip Hennessey is thrown out of army intelligence after evidence is fabricated against him, his ex-wife’s school friend asks him to investigate the sudden death of her father, who she thinks has been murdered. Philip soon discovers a...

Hamnet

Hamnet
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1596

TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet,...

Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)

Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie travel home on the busy Metro. The train is stopped unexpectedly, and Jessie sees that one woman doesn’t leave with the other passengers: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. A...

Hello, Again

Hello, Again
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Aldeburgh, Barcelona, Guernsey, Hamburg, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Philippa Taylor (Pepper to her friends) has big dreams. When she closes her eyes, she can picture exactly who she ought to be. The problem is, it’s about as far away from her real life in a small coastal...

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