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A Skinful of Shadows

A Skinful of Shadows
  • Author(s): Frances Hardinge
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1640s, English Civil War

Frances Hardinge weaves a dark, otherworldly tale in A Skinful of Shadows, her first book since the Costa Award-winning The Lie Tree. When a creature dies, its spirit can go looking for somewhere to hide. Some people have space...

A Slowly Dying Cause

A Slowly Dying Cause
  • Author(s): Elizabeth George
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amid the beauty of Cornwall’s coastline, the death of a local man shatters the peace with its violence. The body of Michael Lobb was discovered in his family’s tin and pewter workshop, and Detective Inspector Beatrice Hannaford is brought...

A Snowfall of Silver

A Snowfall of Silver
  • Author(s): Laura Wood
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1931

A snow-dusted love story. In the Autumn of 1931, eighteen-year-old Freya Trevelyan runs away from her home in Cornwall to follow her dream of becoming an actress. When she is invited to join a theatrical company about to head...

A Song of Isolation

A Song of Isolation
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job....

A Starlit Summer

A Starlit Summer
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Hollywood star, a handsome surfer, a taste of fame. Will Jenna’s Cornish summer be one to remember? When Jenna Wilson lands a role in a movie, it’s the biggest opportunity of her life. A summer shoot is her...

A Sting in the Tale

A Sting in the Tale
  • Author(s): Dave Goulson
  • Location(s): England, Kent
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Centuryy

As a small boy, Dave Goulson was obsessed with wildlife – from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets to his ill-fated experiments with taxidermy. But it was the bumblebee that fascinated him the most. Once commonly found in the...

A Stranger City

A Stranger City
  • Author(s): Linda Grant
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their...

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1870s

The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder. From his lodgings in Baker Street Holmes and Watson forge their working relationship in this, the first of the Sherlock Holmes series.

A Summer of Secrets

A Summer of Secrets
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Are some secrets best kept hidden? Sophia Nelson returns to her hometown in Yorkshire, England to begin a new job as tour guide at Heaton Abbey House. There, she meets the reclusive Thomas, Baron Heaton, a lonely workaholic. Despite...

A Summer of Surprises and an Unexpected Affair

A Summer of Surprises and an Unexpected Affair
  • Author(s): Jan Ellis
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

An Unexpected Affair After her divorce, Eleanor Mace decides to begin a new life running a quirky bookshop in a quiet corner of Devon. She adores her seaside home in Combemouth and her bookshop is a hit and yet...

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