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Curse the Day

Curse the Day
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At a global tech gala hosted at the British Museum, scientist Tobias Hawke is due to unveil an astonishing breakthrough. His AI system appears to have reached consciousness, making Hawke the leading light in his field. But when terrorists...

Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel

Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel is a fun, cosy crime / murder mystery set in Scarborough and published by Headline. It stars an acting troupe who arrive at Helen Dexter’s Seaview Hotel to rehearse a play they hope...

Curves, Kisses and Chocolate Ice-Cream

Curves, Kisses and Chocolate Ice-Cream
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Appledore
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty years ago, Dani fled Appledore with a broken-heart and a suitcase full of shattered dreams. Only now is she brave enough to put her past behind her and return for a summer selling homemade ice-cream and getting fit...

Daisy in Chains

Daisy in Chains
  • Author(s): Sharon Bolton
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Hamish Wolfe is charming, magnetic and very persuasive. Famed for his good looks, he receives adoring letters every day from his countless admirers. He’s also a convicted murderer, facing life in prison. Who would join such a club? Maggie...

Daisy’s Vintage Cornish Camper Van

Daisy’s Vintage Cornish Camper Van
  • Author(s): Ali McNamara
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Ana inherits a broken-down camper van from her best friend, she takes the chance for a quick trip to Cornwall – some sea air and fish and chips on the beach is just the tonic she needs. But...

Dan Knew

Dan Knew
  • Author(s): F J Curlew
  • Location(s): Tallinn, East Lothian, Kyiv, London, Parnu, Portugal, Scotland, Vilnius
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002 - 2016

A puppy born to the dangers of street life. A woman in trouble. An unbreakable bond. A Ukrainian street dog is rescued from certain death by an expat family. As he travels to new countries with them a darkness...

Dance with Fireflies

Dance with Fireflies
  • Author(s): Jane Gill
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940

Arriving in England in 1939 on a troopship from Bombay, Phyllis a young Anglo-Indian woman finds the motherland she’s always dreamed of visiting not quite what she had longed for. War is declared a few months after her arrival....

Dancing In The Moonlight

Dancing In The Moonlight
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When dancer Nell Avery auditions for Speakeasy, a new West End musical, she is shocked to discover that the choreographer is Finn Harris, a man she never expected to see again. Ten years ago, Nell and Finn had a...

Dancing the Charleston

Dancing the Charleston
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1920s

A glittering trip back in time to the 1920s! ‘Wild glamour, class conflict, buried secrets and a cameo appearance by Hetty Feather are all delivered with Wilson’s inimitable, intensely readable flair, interspersed with Nick Sharratt’s cheery illustrations’ – The...

Dancing Through Life, a Memoir, Volume 1

Dancing Through Life, a Memoir, Volume 1
  • Author(s): Shirley Read-Jahn
  • Location(s): England, Greece, Spain, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940's onwards

Straddling the century, this colourful memoir tells of a childhood with an English rose and an English-German spy as parents, the confusions of a Dickensian schooling, coming of age in London’s legendary sixties, before becoming a cave-dwelling hippy on...

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