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A Woman’s War

A Woman’s War
  • Author(s): S. Block
  • Location(s): North-West England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In the depths of war, the women of Great Paxford will need all their strength . . . As enemy planes continue to bombard the North West of England, the members of Great Paxford’s WI fight harder than ever...

A Year in the Woods

A Year in the Woods
  • Author(s): Colin Elford
  • Location(s): Dorset, Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Colin Elford’s A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside – with a preamble from Craig Taylor. Colin Elford spends his days alone – alone but for the deer, the squirrels,...

A Yorkshire Lass: The Early Years

A Yorkshire Lass: The Early Years
  • Author(s): S Bavey
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1935 - 1960

Farm girl Elizabeth Isle’s childhood is fairly idyllic, set in the beautiful countryside of Yorkshire, England, but before long the Second World War breaks out. Now she must become accustomed to the terror of hiding under the stairs when...

Absolutely and Forever

Absolutely and Forever
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Determined, rebellious Marianne Clifford is searching for love and freedom in 1960s London How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly...

Across the River

Across the River
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): Caribbean, England, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1700s, American Revolution

For her, he’d go to the ends of the earth. When she disappears, he might have to. In the English countryside in 1774, Caleb Haroldson and Rebecca Turrington are destined to be together. Stealing her inheritance to fund the...

Act of Oblivion

Act of Oblivion
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): United States (USA), England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1660

‘From what is it they flee?’ He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, ‘They killed the King.’ 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe,...

Acts of Kindness

Acts of Kindness
  • Author(s): Heather Barnett
  • Location(s): Devizes, Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dream Job. Fresh Start. Big Mistake. When Bella Black arrives in a sleepy Wiltshire village, it seems like the perfect place for a new start: a lovely home, exciting job and an attractive colleague or two to take her...

Acts of Omission

Acts of Omission
  • Author(s): Terry Stiastny
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In 1998 the gilt is starting to come off a new era. Mark Lucas, the recently appointed foreign minister, is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the...

Adam’s Ark

Adam’s Ark
  • Author(s): Frances Brand
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2031

A decade after the covid crisis a new and more devastating disaster strikes the world. As the planet gets warmer weather patterns become more erratic, from extreme heat to long periods of monsoon-like rainfall with high ground the only...

Addressed to Greta

Addressed to Greta
  • Author(s): Fiona Sussman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. ‘No expectation, no disappointment’ was one of her mother’s mantras. It serves Greta well too. It...

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