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Jerusalem

Jerusalem
  • Author(s): Alan Moore
  • Location(s): Northampton
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Various

Alan Moore creator of Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls and V for Vendetta pens a grandiose tome about his hometown of Northampton, employing an extremely wide variety of styles, including a poem and a...

Jiddy Vardy

Jiddy Vardy
  • Author(s): Ruth Estevez
  • Location(s): Robin Hood's Bay
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

1779 On tumultuous waters a girl is born as pirates board the ship… Rescued at birth, Jiddy Vardy grows up in Robin Hood’s Bay, a community which harbours a dangerous secret that could get you killed. Always the outsider,...

Jiddy Vardy – Full Sail

Jiddy Vardy – Full Sail
  • Author(s): Ruth Estevez
  • Location(s): Robin Hood's Bay
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1700s

Book Three: 1796 Should Jiddy stay, or should she go? When Jonas left Robin Hood’s Bay, he abandoned his vows to Jiddy. The sea engulfed Captain Samuel Ryethorpe, and his death exposed her once more as an outsider. Both...

Jiddy Vardy – High Tide

Jiddy Vardy – High Tide
  • Author(s): Ruth Estevez
  • Location(s): Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Book two in this passionate smuggling trilogy. 1797 Jiddy Vardy relishes her return to Robin Hood’s Bay… …where high spring tides can sweep unsuspecting strangers into deep water… Jiddy is immediately immersed in smuggling runs, childhood friendships and the...

Jihadi Jane

Jihadi Jane
  • Author(s): Tabish Khair
  • Location(s): Yorkshire, Syria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

High-school best friends Ameena and Jamilla couldn’t be more different: while one smokes cigarettes in their school playground, the other is a member of her mosque’s discussion group in suburban Yorkshire. When heartbreak and doubt leave Ameena bereft and...

Joe Country

Joe Country
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ‘Mick Herron is fast becoming the go-to author for British espionage, and the sixth novel in his Slough House series, Joe Country,...

John Diamond

John Diamond
  • Author(s): Leon Garfield
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian era

‘My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!’ What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night....

Judge Savage

Judge Savage
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge – because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience – it’s time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his marriage is happy enough after...

Julia

Julia
  • Author(s): Sandra Newman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1984

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It’s 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of...

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series
  • Author(s): J Mary Masters
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Derbyshire, London, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, this is the heartbreaking story of a young girl in love, the secret she must never reveal and the family who betrayed her trust. It’s 1942 and the world is...

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