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Getting Away with Murder

Getting Away with Murder
  • Author(s): M A Macklin
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

In order to escape his corrupt and evil deeds, Jim Foster moves from Eastbourne to the charming Cotswold village of Bridgeford-upon-Avon. Handsome, charismatic and wealthy, he catches the eye of several lonely ladies. Celia Bamford’s ill-judged attempt to seduce...

Ghost Girl, Banana

Ghost Girl, Banana
  • Author(s): Wiz Wharton
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s+1997

A powerful debut novel about family secrets and what it costs to belong, for fans of Brit Bennett and Clare Chambers. ‘An astounding debut … written with emotion and astuteness, this deserves to be on book prize lists’ PRIMA...

Ghost Town

Ghost Town
  • Author(s): Catriona Troth
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1981

1981. Coventry, city of Two Tone and Ska, is riven with battles between skinheads and young Asians. Photographer Baz – ‘too Paki to be white, too gora to be desi’ – is capturing the conflict on film. Unemployed graduate...

Ghost Town

Ghost Town
  • Author(s): Jeff Young
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Liverpool is a city of ghosts. Through the centuries, millions have lived here or come to find a new life, and found safe harbour. More than any other city in Britain its history resonates in the buildings, landscapes and...

Ghost Wall

Ghost Wall
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Teenage Silvie is living in a remote Northumberland camp as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is an abusive man, obsessed with recreating the discomfort, brutality and harshness of Iron Age life. Behind and ahead of Silvie’s narrative...

Ghosts

Ghosts
  • Author(s): Dolly Alderton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that...

Gibbous House

Gibbous House
  • Author(s): Ewan Lawrie
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Moffat, a murderous and magniloquent criminal unexpectedly inherits an expansive estate in Northumbria. Modern irony brought to the rich texture of the classic gothic novel.

Girl in Red Velvet

Girl in Red Velvet
  • Author(s): Margaret James
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1966 onwards

When Lily Denham becomes a student at Oxford University she meets best friends and fellow undergraduates Harry Gale and Max Farley. The three of them are soon inseparable. But, as time goes on, it becomes apparent Lily is going...

Girl Zero

Girl Zero
  • Author(s): A A Dhand
  • Location(s): Bradford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Answering a routine call on the outskirts of the city, Detective Inspector Harry Virdee finds something he never thought he’d have to face – the cold body of his beloved niece. He’s immediately banned from working the case, but...

Girls

Girls
  • Author(s): Kirsty Capes
  • Location(s): California, Arizona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This novel first appeared under the title “Daughters” When Mattie and Nora’s mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise she asked her daughters to make: Burn it all....

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