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Glasshopper

Glasshopper
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Brighton, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

From the suburban disorder of 1980s southern England, 13-year-old Jake watches his world unravel as his father and older brother leave the family home and his mother increasingly finds solace in drink. Even as Jake outwardly shrugs off doubts...

Invisibles

Invisibles
  • Author(s): Ed Siegle
  • Location(s): Brighton, Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/70 and early 2000s

From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio de Janeiro, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Simultaneously familiar and foreign, this...

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Brighton, London, Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1957

Amateur detective duo Flora Steele and Jack Carrington have gained a reputation for crime-solving. But will they be able to untangle the latest baffling murder in the cosy village of Abbeymead? Sussex, 1957: When Flora and Jack hear that...

Mystery By The Sea (Lady Eleanor Swift #5)

Mystery By The Sea (Lady Eleanor Swift #5)
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

A magnificent seaside hotel, striped deckchairs, strawberry ice cream… and a rather familiar dead body? Lady Swift is on the case! Spring, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, explorer extraordinaire and accidental sleuth, hasn’t had a vacation since she arrived in...

Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3)

Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton, Munich
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the author’s quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who we’ve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brighton’s social...

Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace 8)

Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace 8)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him . . . For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role...

Starlings

Starlings
  • Author(s): Erinna Mettler
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Starlings is a daisy-chain novel set in Brighton. Each chapter tells the story of one of its varied inhabitants. Disparate lives collide in surprising ways, showing that destinies are often shaped by those we live beside. In a coastal...

The Flow (The Lady of the Pier #2)

The Flow (The Lady of the Pier #2)
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Brighton, Moraitika
  • Genre(s): Historical, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1940s & 1980s

She won’t find peace until she finds redemption. But it’ll take more than love; it’ll take two worlds, to merge into one. CORFU 1988 Sofia arrives in Vassilaki brokenhearted over Danny. Just as a new boy comes into her...

The Other Twin

The Other Twin
  • Author(s): L V Hay
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A stunning, dark and sexy debut thriller set in the winding lanes and underbelly of Brighton, centring around the social media world, where resentments and accusations are played out, identities made and remade, and there is no such thing...

Unexploded

Unexploded
  • Author(s): Alison MacLeod
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

May, 1940. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches of Brighton. It is a year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of...

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