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Dracula

Dracula
  • Author(s): Bram Stoker
  • Location(s): Romania, England, London
  • Era(s): 19th Century

After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the separate status of Transylvania ceased; it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Hungary (Transleithania) as part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. After World War I, Transylvania became part of Romania. (Wikipedia) Bram Stoker’s...

DREAD: A Horror Collection

DREAD: A Horror Collection
  • Author(s): Shah Wharton
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Present Day

A deeply unsettling collection of British horror stories including one psychological horror, one post-apocalyptic horror, and one black humour / satirical horror. Approx. 90 pages. All are UK based. This is the 2nd. Digital Edition (2017) “ BLURBS: A...

Dream a Little Dream

Dream a Little Dream
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What would you give to make your dreams come true? Liza Reece has a dream. Working as a reflexologist for a troubled holistic centre isn’t enough. When the opportunity arises to take over the Centre she jumps at it....

Dream Sequence

Dream Sequence
  • Author(s): Adam Foulds
  • Location(s): London, Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role, to capitalise on his successes in television drama by securing the lead in the latest film by a celebrated Spanish director....

Dreamland

Dreamland
  • Author(s): Rosa Rankin-Gee
  • Location(s): Margate
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded ‘For Sale’ signs line the streets. The sea is higher – it’s higher everywhere – and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however,...

Dreams of a Little Cornish Cottage

Dreams of a Little Cornish Cottage
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In her huge mansion overlooking Wyllow Cove, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Natalia Amore had everything she could possibly want. But her house is empty and Nat yearns for the cosiness and bustle of seaside living. In particular,...

Drowning Not Waving

Drowning Not Waving
  • Author(s): Kate Evans
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Through the centuries, the sea has brought death as well as life to the small seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. When the body of a young man is pulled from the harbour, the police investigation has to dive...

Dunbar

Dunbar
  • Author(s): Edward St Aubyn
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In a modern retelling of King Lear, Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters,...

Dwell

Dwell
  • Author(s): Rue Baldry
  • Location(s): Birmingham, England
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 1910s

…they are within a painting, both openly staring, with the only movement the glittering of dust motes. Light halos the marble-white figure on the floor, burnishing his hair, sharpening his features… January 1919. A new gardener at a snowbound...

Dying to Tell

Dying to Tell
  • Author(s): Robert Goddard
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern / 1960s

It is autumn in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury. Lance Bradley is just beginning to feel that he is idling away his life there as usual when he receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of...

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