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Invisible Girl

Invisible Girl
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONDON: On a fine avenue of grand houses, big cars and electronic gates, lies a neglected urban wasteland. It is nearly midnight, and very cold. Yet in this dark place of long grass and tall trees where cats hunt...

Ironopolis

Ironopolis
  • Author(s): Glen James Brown
  • Location(s): Middlesbrough
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century/modern

Stranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future … But these streets know many stories, some hide...

is this love?

is this love?
  • Author(s): C E Riley
  • Location(s): Hackney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 2010s

J’s wife has left, and J is trying to understand why. How could someone you loved so much, who claimed to love you once, just walk away? How could they send divorce papers accusing you of terrible things, when...

Isabella

Isabella
  • Author(s): Fiona Mountain
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Eighteenth Century

An epic 18th-century historical romance from the author of the celebrated ‘Lady of the Butterflies’. Fletcher Christian and Isabella Curwen are first cousins who grow up together in the Lake District; kindred spirits who, like Heathcliff and Cathy, are...

Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago

Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
  • Author(s): Patrick Barkham
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are...

Islands of Mercy

Islands of Mercy
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): Borneo, Bath, Dublin, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1865 onwards

She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned...

Isolation Ward

Isolation Ward
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Yorkshire, 1983. Margaret Thatcher is in Number 10, ‘Thriller’ is on the radio and Lorraine Quick is having to put plans to tour with her band on hold due to work. With her expertise in psychometric testing, she is...

It Could Have Been Her

It Could Have Been Her
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was the night she almost died. Jane Trevally, newly divorced and feeling a little lost, agrees to accompany a man she doesn’t know to his house in the darkest corner of Hampstead Heath. She’s offered a drink, goes...

It Ends Here

It Ends Here
  • Author(s): Heidi Perks
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You are one of five strangers whose day will start with the worst phone call imaginable. Your loved one is in danger. They are part of a group trapped in a café in a sleepy marina town. The young...

IT NEVER RAINS murder and kidnap in the heart of England

IT NEVER RAINS murder and kidnap in the heart of England
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): Warwickshire, Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

When a ruthless gang burgles the home of a Premier League football player, DCI Gavin Roscoe and DS Sunita Roy suddenly have a murder and a kidnap on their hands. The footballer’s stepson, Marcel, is taken from the palatial...

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