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An Experiment in Love

An Experiment in Love
  • Author(s): Hilary Mantel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

This novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off for 1970s London and study. Centred around Tonbridge Hall, university accommodation, this is a time of experimentation, flirting and love….a study of girls together, and...

An Honest Man

An Honest Man
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Sequel to The Brief (although can be read as a standalone): maverick barrister, Charles Holborne, may have just escaped hanging by proving he was framed for murder, but his life is now in ruins. His wife is dead, his...

An Invitation to the Kennedys

An Invitation to the Kennedys
  • Author(s): Emily Hourican
  • Location(s): Essex, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Kathleen ‘Kick’ Kennedy, recently arrived from Boston, is already a huge hit in 1930s London society. As the daughter of the US ambassador, she is at the centre of the most elite social circles. But when she falls for...

An Unbreakable Bond

An Unbreakable Bond
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

An Unbreakable Bond is the gripping second novel in The Breckton Novels, from bestselling saga author Mary Wood. It is 1913 and for best friends Megan and Hattie, born at the turn of the century and brought up in...

An Unchoreographed Life

An Unchoreographed Life
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

You can’t have it all. So what must you choose to lose? And will it be worth the sacrifice? “Don’t let this brilliant book pass you by!” Amazon reviewer. Six-year-old Belinda Brabbage has amassed a wealth of wisdom. She...

An Unholy Affair

An Unholy Affair
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Somerset, Corsham, Corsham Court, London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will he show her heaven, or take her straight to hell? Vicar Eveline Shaw has always dreamed of finding ‘the one’, but her job keeps getting in the way. She may be kind and beautiful, but men run a...

Anatomy of a Scandal

Anatomy of a Scandal
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): Westminster, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A high-profile marriage thrust into the spotlight. A prosecutor who believes justice has been a long time coming.  A scandal that will rock Westminster. And the women caught at the heart of it.

And He Shall Appear

And He Shall Appear
  • Author(s): Kate van der Borgh
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the hallowed halls of Cambridge, a dangerous obsession takes hold… When a young man arrives in Cambridge as a first-year student, he finds himself an outsider. There’s the punting and the politics, the wine and the waistcoats, all...

And the Stars Were Burning Brightly

And the Stars Were Burning Brightly
  • Author(s): Danielle Jawando
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

When fifteen-year-old Nathan discovers that his older brother Al, has taken his own life, his whole world is torn apart. Al was special. Al was talented. Al had so many dreams … so why did he do it? Convinced...

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None
  • Author(s): Agatha Christie
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1939

1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they...

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