The Confessions of Frannie Langton
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1820s
The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1831
In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of ‘that peculiar institution’. William Styron’s ambitious and stunningly accomplished...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lake District Mysteries 3 Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown’s flower shop near Lake Windermere is doing good business. But when Simmy receives a string of anonymous delivery orders, each one causing their recipient great distress,...
- Location(s): Port Chester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won’t be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
London, September 1941. Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Hiding in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1998 - 2000
A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Addonia’s astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law...
- Location(s): Tunisia, London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s and now
Seven-year-old Gavanndra Hodge’s life is a precarious place. Her father is a hairdresser and drug dealer to Chelsea’s most decadent inhabitants; her mother an alcoholic ex-model. So, it is up to Gavanndra to keep her little sister Candy safe....
- Location(s): Mid Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
One morning after an illegal rave in a Welsh valley, a hill farmer finds a young woman’s body… Reporter Stacey Logan has been investigating the party scene, and when it is established the girl died after taking drugs, she...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th century (Qing dynasty/imperial China)
Lonely. Used as a pawn. One last bid for love. 18th century China. Imperial concubine Qing yearns for love and friendship. Neglected by the Emperor, passed over for more ambitious women, Qing lives a lonely existence. But when a...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): 1969, 2014
1969. Hollywood descends on a tiny Scottish village for the making of Billy Wilder’s most ambitious picture yet: a sprawling epic detailing The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. But the formidable director and his crew soon come into conflict...
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