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IMPURITY

IMPURITY
  • Author(s): Ray Clark
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A murder with no weapon or motive. A detective on edge. A community that wants answers. One fateful night when off duty, DI Stewart Gardener intervenes in a street brawl and his wife is shot dead. Trying to come...

In a Devonshire Carrier’s Van

In a Devonshire Carrier’s Van
  • Author(s): Jan Stewer
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Interested in tales, rendered in a Devonshire accent, from the early 1900s? Tales of humour and insight punctuate the narrative.

In a Kingdom by the Sea

In a Kingdom by the Sea
  • Author(s): Sara MacDonald
  • Location(s): Karachi, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Gabby’s husband accepts a transfer to Pakistan, she discovers a new world of heat and colour, of exotic bazaars and trips to the breath-taking Kashmiri mountains. It is an escape she didn’t know she was looking for. But...

In At The Kill

In At The Kill
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): Colombia, Italy, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jonas Merrick series. Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear. And their ambition reaches further still. Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine,...

In Bitter Chill

In Bitter Chill
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins’s mother commits suicide. Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her...

In Little Stars

In Little Stars
  • Author(s): Linda Green
  • Location(s): Halifax, Bradford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two families divided by hate. A love that will not die. Sylvie and Donna travel on the same train to work each day but have never spoken. Their families are on different sides of the bitter Brexit divide, although...

In Memoriam

In Memoriam
  • Author(s): Alice Winn
  • Location(s): England, Europe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century / WW1

In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a...

In Our Mad And Furious City

In Our Mad And Furious City
  • Author(s): Guy Gunuratne
  • Location(s): Neasden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots...

In Safe Hands

In Safe Hands
  • Author(s): J. P. Carter
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Present-day

When nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London, their distressed parents have no idea if they will ever see them again. The community in the surrounding area is in shock. How could this happen right...

In Search of Ethel Cartwright

In Search of Ethel Cartwright
  • Author(s): Tom Winter
  • Location(s): Clacton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Norman Cartwright, an eighty-six-year-old man living in the small seaside town of Clacton, Essex, has kept his cross-dressing a secret his entire life. A trucker by trade, his lipstick and wigs were donned only in the lonely confines of...

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