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Emma’s Tapestry

Emma’s Tapestry
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): London, Colorado, Japan, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914-1920 and 1939

At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s...

Empress & Aniya

Empress & Aniya
  • Author(s): Candice Carty-Williams
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first YA novel from the bestselling author of Queenie. When Empress starts at Aniya’s school, they’re not exactly best friends. But, when the two teenage girls accidentally cast a spell on their 16th birthday and end up switching...

Enduring Love

Enduring Love
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): The Chilterns
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose’s calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes...

English Pastoral

English Pastoral
  • Author(s): James Rebanks
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

James Rebanks was taught by his grandfather to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with...

Enigma

Enigma
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Bletchley
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a...

Enlightenment

Enlightenment
  • Author(s): Sarah Perry
  • Location(s): Chelmsford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Thomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh (inspired by Chelmsford). Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits – torn between their commitment to religion...

Entanglement

Entanglement
  • Author(s): Katy Mahood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a hot October day in a London park, Stella sits in her red wedding dress opposite John. Pregnant and lost in thoughts of the future, she has no idea that lying in the grass, a stone’s throw away,...

Equinox

Equinox
  • Author(s): Michael White
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Oxford, 2006: a young woman is found brutally murdered, her throat cut.Her heart has been removed and in its place lies an apparently ancient gold coin. Twenty-four hours later, another woman is found. The MO is identical, except that...

Erosion

Erosion
  • Author(s): Ruth Estevez
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nowhere to go. Impossible to stay. The last remaining residents of Moorland Chalet Park are about to lose their homes to the sea. Twenty-year old Lizzie Juniper can’t understand why they choose to stay in such a dangerous place....

Error of Judgement

Error of Judgement
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

Years after a fatal plane crash, the investigation is reopened when a missing body is discovered. It was a tragedy that shocked the nearby Pennine communities to the core. Several deaths were recorded, but one body was never found....

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