The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
- Location(s): The City of London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1750s
Leadenhall Street, London, 1754. Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father’s workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Current Day
Tamsin has recently married the much older Robin Featherstone. She knows Robin loves her, even if he is very close to his assistant, Mia. When Robin dies suddenly, his will is beyond shocking. One thing is clear, the family...
The Second Worst Restaurant in France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contmeporary
Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, a project he relishes but that will have to...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twenty years. One secret. A promise never to tell… Nikki finally owns the little coastguard cottage of her dreams – and it’s a few steps away from the hidden beach that means so much to her. But when a...
- Location(s): England, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and later 20th Century
In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A FAMILY TRAGEDY When a tragedy forces the family Amy works for as a nanny to retreat to a small lakeside cottage, she realises she cannot leave them now. A SISTER’S SECRET But Amy finds something unsettling about the...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1000BCE
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 1000 BC. The Second Iron Age. The time of King David. Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the...
- Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Oxford, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love...
- Location(s): England, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1 onwards
As WWI draws to a close, a love affair that stretches across countries, families and class begins, in master storyteller Eva Ibbotson’s classic historical romance The Secret Countess, with an introduction from Amanda Craig. Anna Grazinsky, a young Russian...
- Location(s): Croatia
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
When no-nonsense, down-to-earth Maddie Wilcox is offered the chance to work on a luxury yacht for the summer, she can’t say no. Yes she’ll be waiting on the posh guests… But island-hopping around the Adriatic sea will more than...
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