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The Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy

The Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy
  • Author(s): Helen Hollick
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, Gwynedd
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 450 AD

The first book in the Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy, The Kingmaking is a retelling of the Arthur legend – but a gritty, realistic one looking at the chaos and jostling for power after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the...

The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad
  • Author(s): Margaret Atwood
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece

Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread:...

The Penford Manor Murders

The Penford Manor Murders
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930

It’s open season at Penford Manor! But someone has murder in their sights… At Penford Manor, the guests are arriving to celebrate the start of the grouse-hunting season: lords and ladies, barons and baronesses, a Member of Parliament –...

The Penguin Killer

The Penguin Killer
  • Author(s): Ste Sharp
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

Brighton, during the glorious Britpop summer of 1995.A second hand bookshop becomes the centre of a serial killer investigation when vintage penguin books are left at murder scenes. Luke Redfern has just inherited the bookshop Red Books from his...

The People In Between: A Cyprus Odyssey

The People In Between: A Cyprus Odyssey
  • Author(s): Gregory S Lamb
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A family’s history is shaped by the conflicts during the 1960s and 70s in Cyprus.Kiraz Nora Johansson and her twin brother never knew their mother who died while giving birth. By invitation of a family friend she travels to...

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Present

It is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh’s favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson – he of the clove-scented hair gel – it...

The Perfect Circle

The Perfect Circle
  • Author(s): Clauda Petrucci, Anne Milano Appel (translator)
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two women far apart in time, a mysterious unsellable mansion in Milan that connects them: two lives that start to overlap as impossible parallels are revealed in this story of passion, betrayal, and selfish desire. In the round house...

The Perfect Couple

The Perfect Couple
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every couple has their secrets . . . It’s wedding season, and tensions are brewing. When one lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can even begin – with the maid of honour discovered dead in Nantucket Harbor just...

The Perfect Divorce

The Perfect Divorce
  • Author(s): Jeneva Rose
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine. It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah haslong since moved on, starting a family with her new...

The Perfect Family Man

The Perfect Family Man
  • Author(s): M M DeLuca
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five years ago, my little boy went missing. Now my husband’s vanished, too. I wish I could say that the tragedy of little Jack disappearing brought me and Nate closer together. But my husband is more distant from me...

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