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Take Nothing With You

Take Nothing With You
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): Weston-super-Mare, Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother’s quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He...

The Art Fiasco

The Art Fiasco
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Golden Age 1920s

It’s 1924 and Poppy Denby is heading up to Northumberland to celebrate her father’s sixtieth birthday. She stops off in Newcastle en route to visit her Aunt Dot, who has temporarily relocated from London to renovate a house she’s...

The Art of Death

The Art of Death
  • Author(s): David Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death is an art, and he is the master . . . Three glass cabinets appear in London’s Trafalgar Square containing a gruesome art installation: the floating corpses of three homeless men. Shock turns to horror when it becomes...

The Baobab Beach Retreat

The Baobab Beach Retreat
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Tanzania, Cheltenham, Zanzibar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tanzania. A place to be happy, to sleep uncovered with the sound of waves crashing to the shore. For Connie Stone, it’s a place to heal. When Connie leaves behind a cheating husband and heartache in the UK for...

The Beach Hut

The Beach Hut
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Woolacombe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

On Everdene Sands, a row of beach huts holds the secrets of the families who own them – secrets of unrequited love, plain old-fashioned lust, childhood dreams and long-forgotten hopes… ‘FOR SALE: a rare opportunity to purchase a beach...

The Beekeeper’s Daughter

The Beekeeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Dorset, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1970s

Dorset, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future – until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and alone. Alone, that...

The Book of Coventry

The Book of Coventry
  • Author(s): Raef Boylan (Editor)
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Part of Comma’s popular ‘Reading the City’ series, offering a literary guide to one of the UK’s most overlooked but fascinating modern cities. Featuring 11 stories by contemporary and classic 20th century writers, including award-winning fantasy author Graham Joyce,...

The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that ....

The Book-Lovers’ Retreat

The Book-Lovers’ Retreat
  • Author(s): Heidi Swain
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sometimes a book grabs you by the heart and grows to mean everything to you. That’s what Hope Falls is to friends Emily, Rachel and Tori. So, when they get the chance to spend a whole summer at the...

The Burning Man

The Burning Man
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set around London – Kings Cross, Brixton, The City and Belgravia…. London is under siege. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and as the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless man burns to...

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