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Cider With Rosie

Cider With Rosie
  • Author(s): Laurie Lee
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1959

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge...

Circus of Wonders

Circus of Wonders
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Macneal
  • Location(s): London, Crimea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

1866. In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell’s world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. But...

City of Sinners

City of Sinners
  • Author(s): A A Dhand
  • Location(s): Bradford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is an ordinary Yorkshire morning, cold and miserable. The streets are not yet busy. Police cars hurriedly pull up in the centre of town, but none of their lights are flashing and the sirens are silent. A body...

City of Stolen Magic

City of Stolen Magic
  • Author(s): Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): East London, India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1855

India, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out. More terrifying still, people born with magic are being snatched from their homes. Rumour is that they are being taken across the sea...

City on Fire

City on Fire
  • Author(s): Graham Bartlett
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After losing her sister to an overdose, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe is desperate to tackle the world of drugs that consumes the shadowy backstreets of Brighton. Operation Eradicate is her response but not everyone sees it as a positive...

City Secrets: London

City Secrets: London
  • Author(s): Tim Adams, Robert Kahn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Something a little different. From the Publisher’s Blog: Take a car or a cab to Elizabeth Street in Belgravia, where you will ?nd a lot of what you need to nourish body and soul. At Jeroboams, pick up some...

Clara and Olivia

Clara and Olivia
  • Author(s): Lucy Ashe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Sadler’s Wells, 1933. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match identical twin Clara’s charm. As rehearsals intensify for the ballet Coppélia, the girls feel increasingly like they...

Clean Point

Clean Point
  • Author(s): Meg Jones
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Scottie Sinclair is a cheat. Or at least, that’s what the world thinks. After all, who would believe her own father secretly drugged her? The tabloids have called ‘Game, Set, Match’ on Scottie’s career–but an offer at redemption, and...

Clive’s Christmas Crusades

Clive’s Christmas Crusades
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 2021

Twenty-nine-year-old, Clive and his partner, Barbara have lived together for a year now. Clive works as a tour leader on trips around his beloved York City. When he finishes one of his favourite, murder-mystery trails, he pockets his tips...

Clovenhoof

Clovenhoof
  • Author(s): Heide Goody, Iain Grant
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

Charged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia. Forced to live as a human under the name of Jeremy Clovenhoof, the dark lord...

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