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Boot Camp Bride

Boot Camp Bride
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): London, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Norfolk and Chelsea Take an up-for-anything reporter. Add a world-weary photo-journalist. Put them together . . . light the blue touch paper and stand well back! Posing as a bride-to-be, Charlee Montague goes undercover at a boot...

Borderline

Borderline
  • Author(s): Denver Murphy
  • Location(s): St Albans
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present

A young detective becomes enveloped in a fight between justice and revenge The investigation into a rape on a housing estate nosedives when those responsible are murdered by vigilantes. Having promised the victim to bring the men to justice,...

Boudicca’s Daughter

Boudicca’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): East Anglia, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1st Century CE

Boudicca. Infamous warrior, queen of the British Iceni tribe and mastermind of one of history’s greatest revolts. Her defeat spelled ruin for her people, yet still her name is enough to strike fear into Roman hearts. But what of...

Bournville

Bournville
  • Author(s): Jonathan Coe
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 20th / early 21st centuries

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it’s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of...

Box Hill

Box Hill
  • Author(s): Adam Mars-Jones
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975

On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree and that’s where it all starts. This transgressive,...

Boy Parts

Boy Parts
  • Author(s): Eliza Clark
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery,...

Boy Queen

Boy Queen
  • Author(s): George Lester
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Fall wig first into a world of big hair, high heels and even higher stakes in George Lester’s debut novel Boy Queen. Life’s a drag until you try . . . Robin Cooper’s life is falling apart. While his...

Boy, Everywhere

Boy, Everywhere
  • Author(s): A M Dassu
  • Location(s): Manchester, Damascus, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): contemporary

This debut middle-grade novel chronicles the harrowing journey taken by Sami and his family from privilege to poverty, across countries and continents, from a comfortable life in Damascus, via a smuggler’s den in Turkey, to a prison in Manchester....

Brave New Summer

Brave New Summer
  • Author(s): Sarah Morgan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Evie is the acting general manager of The Alexandra hotel in picturesque Cornwall, but she feels trapped in a life defined by others’ expectations. Just as she contemplates a fresh start, Abby arrives, sent undercover by the hotel’s owner...

Brazen Escape

Brazen Escape
  • Author(s): Diane M Dickson
  • Location(s): Oxfordshire, The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present Day

In the aftermath of an horrendous motorway pile up and body is found that doesn’t appear to be a victim of the crash. When DI Tanya Miller and her team investigate the pursuit takes them to the South Coast...

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