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Sleep When You’re Dead

Sleep When You’re Dead
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): The Hebrides, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In thirty-six hours, thousands of innocent people will die. There’s not a second to waste. And no time for sleep… Michael North has a bullet lodged in his brain which could kill him any second. That makes him the...

Someone Else’s Conflict

Someone Else’s Conflict
  • Author(s): Alison Layland
  • Location(s): Croatia, Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s/modern

Jay has chosen an itinerant life of busking and odd-jobbing, using rootlessness and stories to hide the guilt of his mistakes from the 1990s war in Croatia, beneath an outward layer of cheerfulness. When he arrives in the Yorkshire...

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Somewhere Beyond the Sea
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can you fall in love with someone before you’ve even met? Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built – while grieving for his loss – she...

Spitalfields Life

Spitalfields Life
  • Author(s): The Gentle Author
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

“I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London…” Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary...

Sugar And Snails

Sugar And Snails
  • Author(s): Anne Goodwin
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s and 2000s

At fifteen, she made a life-changing decision. Thirty years on, it’s time to make another. When Diana escaped her misfit childhood, she thought she’d chosen the easier path. But the past lingers on, etched beneath her skin, and life...

Suicide Thursday

Suicide Thursday
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s...

Summary Justice

Summary Justice
  • Author(s): John Fairfax
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Eaerly 21st Century

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He’d...

Summer of ’76

Summer of ’76
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It’s the start of one of the hottest summers on record with weeks without rain: the summer of Abba, T-Rex and David Bowie: of the Notting Hill riots and when Big Ben stopped dead. Luke Wolff is about to...

Swallowtail Summer

Swallowtail Summer
  • Author(s): Erica James
  • Location(s): Norfolk Broads
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Linston End on the Norfolk Broads has been the holiday home to three families for many years. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at...

Sweet Sorrow

Sweet Sorrow
  • Author(s): David Nicholls
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1997

One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran… In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don’t remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it...

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