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Keeper

Keeper
  • Author(s): Jessica Moor
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

He’s been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw’s body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it’s...

Keeping In Touch

Keeping In Touch
  • Author(s): Anjali Jospeh
  • Location(s): Assam, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): present

Meet Ved, a British investor heading back to his Indian roots with a business proposition: a lightbulb called the Everlasting Lucifer. Meet Keteki, an art curator with a nomadic lifestyle, on her way home to Assam. In Heathrow airport,...

Keeping My Sisters’ Secrets

Keeping My Sisters’ Secrets
  • Author(s): Beezy Marsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Born into a close-knit working class family in the slums of London’s Waterloo, Eva, Peggy and Kathleen are three remarkably different, but very loving sisters. Desperate to escape their violent father, they find different ways to survive. Beautiful Kathleen...

Keeping the House

Keeping the House
  • Author(s): Tice Cin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud; that’s where we put the heroin . . . Ayla has a plan. There’s a stash of heroin; just waiting to be imported. No one seems sure what to...

Kehinde

Kehinde
  • Author(s): Buchi Emecheta
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Kehinde is a Nigerian woman, unsure of herself, not quite certain she has the right to be happy. With her husband, Albert, she has made a home in London, and has a promising career when Albert decides they should...

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens
  • Author(s): Virginia Woolf
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1920s

It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday. Originally accompanying illustrations by Vanessa Bell, its visual organisation has been described as analogous to a post-impressionist painting. Set in the...

Kicking Off: Dick, Kerr Girls

Kicking Off: Dick, Kerr Girls
  • Author(s): Eve Ainsworth
  • Location(s): Preston
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1917

It’s 1917, and Britain is at war. Shy teenager Hettie wants to help the war effort, and signs up to work in the local Dick, Kerr & Co. munitions factory. She’s nervous, but she has no idea quite how...

Kill Shot

Kill Shot
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

City criminals get more than they bargained for when they stumble onto DCI Jack Harris’ rural patch When a pair of hen harriers return to nest in the grouse moors of the northern Pennines, Detective Jack Harris is as...

Killer Lines

Killer Lines
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Current

A body is discovered outside the halls of residence at the University of North Yorkshire. When the post-mortem confirms he died of a drug overdose, the case is closed. But forensic archaeologist, Dr Mills Sanderson, is concerned that the...

Killing for Keeps

Killing for Keeps
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Killing for Keeps is Maria Hannah’s fifth gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels. It’s in the blood . . . Two brothers from the same criminal family die within hours of each other, five miles apart, one on...

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