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Excellent Women

Excellent Women
  • Author(s): Barbara Pym
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Mildred Lathbury is one of those ‘excellent women’ who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, ‘capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life – birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden...

Exe Marks the Spot

Exe Marks the Spot
  • Author(s): Suzy Bussell
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this first book in an addictive series, unlikely duo retired cop Angus Darrow and cybersecurity expert Charlotte Lockwood team up to find a missing vulnerable young man. Fast-paced and clever, with a strong sense of place, it’s a...

Exit

Exit
  • Author(s): Belinda Bauer
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Felix lets himself into Number 3 Black Lane, he’s there to perform an act of charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath . . . But just fifteen minutes later Felix is...

Exit Five from Charing Cross

Exit Five from Charing Cross
  • Author(s): Valerie Keogh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Rich, successful and married to a beautiful woman, Jake Mitchell seems to have it all. But it’s all come at a cost. Choices Jake has made along the way start to have consequences and everything starts to fall apart....

Exit Management

Exit Management
  • Author(s): Naomi Booth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Callum has been given an opportunity: Jozsef’s house is the perfect place to live, plenty of room, a sought-after London location and filled with priceless works of art. All that Jozsef asks in return is for some company while...

Expectation

Expectation
  • Author(s): Anna Hope
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come....

Explore Essex

Explore Essex
  • Author(s): Gillian Darley, James Nunn (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The county everyone’s heard of; the place few of us know. Gillian Darley takes us on a vivid, personal tour, from the seaside piers to the empty marshes and the New Town tower blocks, revealing a landscape and a...

Eye Contact

Eye Contact
  • Author(s): Fergus McNeill
  • Location(s): The West Country, Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If you look him in the eye, you’re dead. From the outside, Robert Naysmith is a successful businessman, handsome and charming. But for years he’s been playing a deadly game. He doesn’t choose his victims. Each is selected at...

Eye of the Wind

Eye of the Wind
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

In 1794 Lord Roland Stratton left Cornwall for war-torn France to undertake a secret mission for the British government. When her father is felled by a stroke brought on by desperate financial problems, Melissa Tregonning has to try to...

Eye Spy

Eye Spy
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Waiting for the Eurostar in Paris, Mark’s four-year-old daughter alerts him to a ‘Bad Man’ during a game of ‘Eye Spy’. Things only get worse when Mark notices that the man is on their train with a suspicious-looking suitcase,...

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