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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1770s/80s

A Tapping at My Door

A Tapping at My Door
  • Author(s): David Jackson
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A deadly game of cat and mouse – and the police aren’t the ones doing the hunting. A gripping new serial killer thriller from the bestselling author of Cry Baby When police are called to a murder scene in...

A Terrible Kindness

A Terrible Kindness
  • Author(s): Jo Browning Wroe
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Aberfan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Around 1960s

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But,...

A Thing of the Moment

A Thing of the Moment
  • Author(s): Bruno Noble
  • Location(s): Tokyo, London, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s to 1990s

A novel written from the points of view of three women with the subject, besides telling the stories of how they grow up and meet, the nature of the self, or of identity. It takes its title from Straw...

A Time for Swords

A Time for Swords
  • Author(s): Matthew Harffy
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 790s AD

When the Vikings attack, a novice monk’s life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy’s new historical adventure. Lindisfarne, AD793. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the...

A Time Like No Other

A Time Like No Other
  • Author(s): Audrey Howard
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

A Trace of Sun

A Trace of Sun
  • Author(s): Pam Williams
  • Location(s): England, Grenada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘An unflinching look at one family’s experience of immigration, exploring mental health, identity and family’ Louise Hare ‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him...

A Very Lucky Christmas

A Very Lucky Christmas
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Things can’t get worse for Daisy Jones… can they? Christmas is meant to be the happiest time of year so why is absolutely everything going wrong for Daisy? Reeling from a bad breakup, moving back in with her parents...

A Village Affair

A Village Affair
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Cassie Beresford has recently landed her dream job as deputy head at her local, idyllic village primary school, Little Acorns. So, the last thing she needs is her husband of twenty years being ‘outed’ at a village charity auction...

A Village Secret

A Village Secret
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jennifer goes up to Cambridge University with her head full of the Romantic Poets, she never dreams that she will find her very own Byron. But then she meets gorgeous actor Laurie Lewis, and finds herself living a...

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