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Lydia Bennet’s Story

Lydia Bennet’s Story
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Bath, Brighton, Hertfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Regency

In “Lydia Bennet’s Story”, we are taken back to Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, to a Regency world seen through Lydia’s eyes where pleasure and marriage are the only pursuits. But the road to matrimony is...

Lying To You

Lying To You
  • Author(s): Amanda Reynolds
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

You think you know the truth, but what if your husband is LYING TO YOU? When Jess Tidy was Mark Winter’s student, she made a shocking accusation. Mark maintained his innocence, but the damage was done. Karen Winter stood...

Lyra’s Oxford (His Dark Materials)

Lyra’s Oxford (His Dark Materials)
  • Author(s): Philip Pullman
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): contemporary

This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven’t appeared yet . . . Two years after the...

Machines Like Me

Machines Like Me
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines...

Maggie’s Kitchen

Maggie’s Kitchen
  • Author(s): Caroline Beecham
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

When the British Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of restaurants to feed tired and hungry Londoners during WWII, aspiring cook Maggie Johnson seems close to realising a long-held dream. After overcoming a tangle of red tape,...

Magpie Crossing

Magpie Crossing
  • Author(s): Jo Fuller
  • Location(s): Hertfordshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1978, 2018

Does it count as two-timing if you are in two different decades? Tara Pickering has everything – an impressive house in a quaint Hertfordshire village and a handsome accountant boyfriend, Stephen. She stumbles upon a time portal in her...

Magpie Lane

Magpie Lane
  • Author(s): Lucy Atkins
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master’s Lodging – an eerie...

Make Her Pay

Make Her Pay
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Leonie has just met the man of her dreams. But she has a secret. Years ago, she was involved in an accident and someone died. Now, as her wedding draws near, it seems someone is out to get her....

Making a Killing

Making a Killing
  • Author(s): Cara Hunter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(DI Fawley, Book 7) In 2016, eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanished from her Oxford home. Her disappearance made the national press and the final culprit shocked everyone. DCI Adam Fawley remembers the case well, he arrested Daisy’s mother for murder...

MAKING A KILLING

MAKING A KILLING
  • Author(s): Bud Craig
  • Location(s): Salford
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A private detective’s investigation into an affair hots up when the suspect is murdered When a fight breaks out at a Boxing Day fancy dress party, attendee Gus Keane puts the fracas down to festive exuberance and too much...

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