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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...

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...

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