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The Brookwood Boys

The Brookwood Boys
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW1 / WW2 / Present

Can the dead talk to the living? Tennessee soldier Maurice ‘Mouse’ Forsyth has been watching over Brookwood Cemetery since his untimely death in 1917. For over a hundred lonely years, he has become the caretaker of lost souls, welcoming...

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
  • Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons–the impulsive and sensual Dmitri;...

The Brothers Lionheart

The Brothers Lionheart
  • Author(s): Astrid Lindgren, Ilon Wikland (illustrator), Joan Tate (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Children, In Translation
  • Era(s): N/A

The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta) is a children’s fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the autumn of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy...

The Brutal Telling

The Brutal Telling
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines for the fifth book in Louise Penny’s award-winning and critically revered mystery series Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is...

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
  • Author(s): Anna Bell
  • Location(s): Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A hilarious new romantic comedy for fans of Lindsey Kelk and Jane Costello from Anna Bell, the bestselling author of Don’t Tell the Groom. Abi’s barely left her bed since Joseph, the love of her life, dumped her, saying...

The Budapest Artists’ Club

The Budapest Artists’ Club
  • Author(s): Claire Doyle
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Now

Laura McLove–lover of music and dance alike–encounters a handsome Hungarian dancer and returns to Budapest to get closure on the strange events that occurred nearly twenty years earlier. Arriving on Franz Liszt Square, she enrols an old friend to...

The Bull of Mithros #6

The Bull of Mithros #6
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Fictionalised Corfu. Drawn to the sun-drenched island of Mithros by the myth of its fabled bull, the arrival of investigator Hermes Diaktoros coincides with a violent and troubling death. The death has echoes in Mithros’s past, in a brutal...

The Bullet Collection

The Bullet Collection
  • Author(s): Patricia Sarrafian Ward
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Marianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirut–bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaine’s retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure...

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
  • Author(s): Kate Bradbury
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton
  • Era(s): Modern

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a...

The Bungalow

The Bungalow
  • Author(s): Sarah Jio
  • Location(s): Bora Bora, Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1942 onwards

The country is at war, 21 year old Anne Calloway is about to marry a man she has known all her life. Her best friend Kitty will depart for Bora Bora to work as a nurs. Anne too, decides...

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