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Catherine

Catherine
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A Retelling of Wuthering Heights The greatest tragic love story ever told – but this time, Catherine tells it herself. In Catherine, Essie Fox breathes new life into Wuthering Heights, transforming a gothic masterpiece into a haunting confession of...

Celebrating All Creatures Great & Small: For the Love of the Yorkshire Dales

Celebrating All Creatures Great & Small: For the Love of the Yorkshire Dales
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography

The official All Creatures Great & Small companion, offering a glimpse behind the scenes of the award-winning show, with beautiful photography throughout. ‘All Creatures Great & Small is the loveliest place in (fictional) Britain.’ The Telegraph ‘The show that...

Ceremony of Innocence

Ceremony of Innocence
  • Author(s): Madeleine Bunting
  • Location(s): Iran, Bahrain, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s onwards

A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family’s history in the Gulf has put her in danger. The trail leads back to Tehran in 1969,...

Changer

Changer
  • Author(s): Matt Gemmell
  • Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...

Chaos Calls to Chaos

Chaos Calls to Chaos
  • Author(s): M D Wigg Jay Heyes
  • Location(s): London, Devon
  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A comedy about the exploits of London Curates, Chris, Ravi and Ellie and youth worker Mike, who team up with North Devon Surfer, Storm, to try and control the ambitions of the free lance surfing Archdeacon, or A.D. as...

Cheltenham Then & Now

Cheltenham Then & Now
  • Author(s): Sue Rowbotham, Jill Waller
  • Location(s): Cheltenham
  • Genre(s): Photography
  • Era(s): various

Cheltenham Then & Now is a superb collection photographs of the town, compiled by Sue Rowbotham and Jill Waller. Scenes of yesteryear are contrasted with modern colour views to show what has been lost and what remains. This book...

Chinglish

Chinglish
  • Author(s): Sue Cheng
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980s

It is difficult trying to talk in our family cos: a) Grandparents don’t speak English at all b) Mum hardly speaks any English c) Me, Bonny and Simon hardly speak Chinese d) Dad speaks Chinese and good English –...

Chosen Child

Chosen Child
  • Author(s): Linda Huber
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): present day

A disappearance. A sudden death. A betrayal of the worst kind. Ella longs for a child of her own, but a gruesome find during an adoption process deepens the cracks in her marriage. Her husband Rick has a secret,...

Christ on a Bike

Christ on a Bike
  • Author(s): Orla Owen
  • Location(s): Hackney, Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached, twisted rules that have to be followed if she is to receive it in full . As she settles into her new life, she begins to feel trapped and...

Christmas at Bay Tree Cottage

Christmas at Bay Tree Cottage
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The countdown to Christmas is usually a magical time, but Elana James is fed up with living on a building site! The renovations on her beautiful cottage – like her heart – have been frozen in limbo ever since...

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