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Master Of War

Master Of War
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): France, England, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 14th Century

Amid the carnage of the 100 Years War – the bloodiest confilct in medieval history – a young English archer confronts his destiny… England, 1346: For Thomas Blackstone the choice is easy – dance on the end of a...

Match Point

Match Point
  • Author(s): Katherine Reilly
  • Location(s): London, Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Summer in London can only mean one thing: tennis. For two weeks Wimbledon hosts the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world and this year everyone is talking about player Kieran O’Sullivan, the infamous bad boy of the sport...

Max the Detective Cat: The Disappearing Diva

Max the Detective Cat: The Disappearing Diva
  • Author(s): Sarah Todd Taylor, Nicola Kinnear (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

With a beautifully fluffy tail and a keen nose for adventure, Max the Detective Cat is ready for any mystery… Max, chief mouse hunter at the Theatre Royal, is up to his whiskers in his first mystery! Max notices...

May Day Murder

May Day Murder
  • Author(s): Julie Wassmer
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s springtime and Whitstable is emerging from hibernation. While neither the restaurant nor detective agency is too busy, Pearl resolves to spend some time at the family allotment. But her best friend, Nathan, has persuaded one of his favourite...

Maybe Next Time

Maybe Next Time
  • Author(s): Cesca Major
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Time Slip, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dan is Emma’s person. She’s known it since the first time she saw him dressed in lederhosen on the tube. On their fifteen year ‘dateversary’, Emma texts a list of everything she should have told Dan that morning. Tell...

Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time
  • Author(s): Jill Mansell
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds, Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mimi isn’t looking for love when she spends a weekend in Goosebrook, the Cotswolds village her dad has moved to. And her first encounter with Cal, who lives there too, is nothing like a scene in a romantic movie...

Mayflies

Mayflies
  • Author(s): Andrew O'Hagan
  • Location(s): Scotland, London, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1986 and 2017

A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music,...

Mazie Baby

Mazie Baby
  • Author(s): Julie Frayn
  • Location(s): Canada, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Horror, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present day (2014 ish)

When Mazie Reynolds was a young girl, she believed monsters lived under her bed. Now a grown, married woman, she discovers one sleeps in her bed. Mazie schemes to save herself and her daughter. Her plan will work, if...

Me Mam. Me Dad. Me.

Me Mam. Me Dad. Me.
  • Author(s): Malcolm Duffy
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials and tribulations of family life and finding first love. Danny’s mam has a new boyfriend. Initially, all is good –...

Meet Me At Pebble Beach

Meet Me At Pebble Beach
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Regan is holding a winning lottery ticket. Goodbye to the boyfriend who never had her back, and so long to the job she can’t stand! Except it’s all a bit too good to be true… When Regan gets pranked,...

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