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Making Waves at Penvennan Cove

Making Waves at Penvennan Cove
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kerra Shaw feels that all the pieces of her life are finally coming together. She has a fulfilling job helping small businesses in the local community and, most importantly, she has finally got together with her childhood sweetheart, Ross...

Mamele

Mamele
  • Author(s): Gemma Reeves
  • Location(s): Broadstairs
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘When my mother washed my hair she crooned, mamele, mamele, into my ear. Little mother, meaning little daughter, meaning you’re a good girl, Edie.’ Edie lives with her partner Joanna in a crumbling country house in Broadstairs. They have...

Man in Armour

Man in Armour
  • Author(s): Siobhan McKenna
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a...

Manchester Happened

Manchester Happened
  • Author(s): Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
  • Location(s): Uganda, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

An ambitious and assured collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Kintu If there’s one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi’s stories know, it’s how to field a question. ‘Let me buy you a cup of...

Mark My Words

Mark My Words
  • Author(s): Muhammad Khan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who you can trust when all you see is lies....

Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle Book 2)

Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle Book 2)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . . The sunlit days of childish games and family meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At...

Marvellous Ways

Marvellous Ways
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

This is a story about Marvellous Ways, an eighty-nine-year-old woman who lives alone in a remote Cornish creek, spending her days sitting by the river, peering through a telescope. And it’s about Francis Drake, a young soldier who washes...

Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile

Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile
  • Author(s): Alice Jolly
  • Location(s): Gloucestershire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 1800s

If you tell a story oft enough So it become true As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth. She writes of the Valleys that she loves,...

Mary Anne

Mary Anne
  • Author(s): Daphne du Maurier
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn 19th Century

‘Like its heroine the book is possessed of such unforgettably vivid charm that one is seduced’ L. S. Hilton, author of Maestra In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their...

Masquerade on the Riviera

Masquerade on the Riviera
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Monaco, Torquay
  • Era(s): Modern

From Egyptian treasures on the English Riviera to a mystery in glamorous Monaco … Renowned Egyptologist Dr Elliott Elwood is slightly puzzled when he’s invited to Torquay to take part in a bizarre bidding war for a well-known artefact...

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