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The Flip Side

The Flip Side
  • Author(s): James Bailey
  • Location(s): Europe, Bristol, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s love . . . what could go wrong? When Josh proposes in a pod on the London Eye at New Years’ Eve, he thinks it’s perfect. Until she says no. And they have to spend the next 29...

Children of the Wav

Children of the Wav
  • Author(s): John Godwin
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Set in the late 18th century, this powerful historical novel focuses on the city of Bristol and its connections with the slave trade at a time when the abolitionist movement is gathering momentum in England. A well-respected Bristol councillor...

Guilty Tiger

Guilty Tiger
  • Author(s): Chris Brown
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Merck cocaine, Keith Richards’ drug of choice is back. But there’s one big difference to the uber coca that fuelled the Rolling Stones tour in 1975 – it’s been modified so it’s undetectable in the human blood system. It’s...

The Last Llanelli Train

The Last Llanelli Train
  • Author(s): Robert Lewis
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

An ageing misanthrope with a penchant for alcohol, seeking out work in the underbelly of Bristol – a bit of debt collecting and exposing errant spouses.

Strangers

Strangers
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ursula, Gareth and Alice have never met before. Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life. Gareth’s been receiving strange postcards. And Alice is being stalked. None of them are used to relying on others – but when...

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending
  • Author(s): Julian Barnes
  • Location(s): Bristol, Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others,...

Death Comes First

Death Comes First
  • Author(s): Hilary Bonner
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

If you can’t trust your family, where do you turn . . . Joyce Mildmay’s life is torn apart when her husband Charlie is killed in a tragic yachting accident. Though financially secure, Joyce is left to raise their three...

Because of You

Because of You
  • Author(s): Dawn French
  • Location(s): London, Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s/2010s

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . . midnight. The old millennium turns into the new. In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl. Anna leaves with...

A Wedding on the Riviera

A Wedding on the Riviera
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Bristol, Bath, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A return to the Riviera on the trail of a runaway groom … When out-of-work actor Ryan Calder attends a wedding as the plus-one of successful businesswoman, Nadine Wells, he doesn’t expect to get in a scuffle with the...

After Phoenix

After Phoenix
  • Author(s): Martine McDonagh
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1973-1974

A darkly comic tale of family, friendship and grief. When Penny’s older brother is killed in a motorbike accident, her mother is admitted to the local psychiatric hospital and her father moves into the garden shed, leaving Penny alone...

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