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How to Find Love in a Book Shop

How to Find Love in a Book Shop
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nightingale Books, nestled on the high street in the idyllic Cotswold town of Peasebrook, is a dream come true for booklovers. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open. The temptation to sell up is proving...

How to Solve Murders Like a Lady

How to Solve Murders Like a Lady
  • Author(s): Hannah Dolby
  • Location(s): Hastings, St Leonards
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Violet Hamilton is no ordinary lady… She is a Lady Detective, who spends her time solving mysteries and unveiling scandals in the bustling seaside town of Hastings and St Leonards, a popular spot for the Victorian middle classes. But...

How to Stop Time

How to Stop Time
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and historical

‘I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.’ Tom Hazard...

Howard’s End

Howard’s End
  • Author(s): E M Forster
  • Location(s): England
  • Era(s): 1910s (Edwardian England)

In Howard’s End, E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups–a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man...

Hubble Bubble

Hubble Bubble
  • Author(s): Jane Lovering
  • Location(s): North York Moors
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Be careful what you wish for … Holly Grey joined the woman’s group to keep her friend out of trouble – and now she’s knee-deep in hassle, in the form of apocalyptic weather, armed men, midwifery – and a...

Human Voices

Human Voices
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

From the Booker Prizewinning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first...

Hunted

Hunted
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

** WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2025 ** ** WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025**   It’s a week before the presidential elections...

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
  • Author(s): Anita Sethi
  • Location(s): The Pennines, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One of Waterstones Best Books to Look Forward to in 2021 The Bookseller’s Book of the Month A Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight “I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had...

I Came to Find a Girl

I Came to Find a Girl
  • Author(s): Jaq Hazell
  • Location(s): London, Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A complex game of cat and mouse in the streets of Nottingham ends in death. Young artist Mia Jackson is compelled to watch the posthumous video diaries of Jack Flood – controversial bad boy of the London art world...

I Can’t Begin to Tell You

I Can’t Begin to Tell You
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): England, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror – her husband of twenty-five years – collaborates with the enemy to save his family home. Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance, her...

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