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Narrowboat Dreams: A Journey North by England’s Waterways

Narrowboat Dreams: A Journey North by England’s Waterways
  • Author(s): Steve Haywood
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

At home, I’m a cantankerous old git. On the boat, after a week’s cruising, I’m just a cantankerous old git with dirty hair. Steve Haywood has a problem. He doesn’t know where he comes from. In the south, people...

Naturally Nic/k

Naturally Nic/k
  • Author(s): Kathryn Rossati
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Time Slip
  • Era(s): Mid Victorian era

Nic loves to perform magic tricks, but after the girls at school made fun of her, she hid her passion, thinking she’d never be good enough. When Nic’s class goes on a school trip to the Thames Tunnel to...

Need You Dead

Need You Dead
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you’ve made. A chance photograph on a client’s mobile...

Needless Alley

Needless Alley
  • Author(s): Natalie Marlow
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Birmingham, 1933. Private enquiry agent William Garrett, a man damaged by a dark childhood spent on Birmingham’s canals, specialises in facilitating divorces for the city’s male elite. With the help of his best friend -charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton...

Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There
  • Author(s): Miriam Drori
  • Location(s): Jerusalem, London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Love in an exotic setting. Esty’s life was laid out for her from birth. She would marry one of a handful of young men suggested to her and settle down to raise a large family in a tiny space...

Never Alone

Never Alone
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Haynes
  • Location(s): North York Moors
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sarah Carpenter lives in an isolated farmhouse in North Yorkshire, and for the first time after the death of her husband some years ago and her children, Louis and Kitty, leaving for university, she’s living alone. But she doesn’t...

Never Be Broken

Never Be Broken
  • Author(s): Sarah Hilary
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Children are dying on London’s streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited from care homes, picked up and exploited; passed like gifts between gangs. They are London’s lost. Then Raphaela Belsham is killed....

Never Forget, Never Forgive

Never Forget, Never Forgive
  • Author(s): Denise Smith
  • Location(s): Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She discovered the body, but can she discover the truth? After the sudden death of her father and the mysterious disappearance of her mother – an unsolved case that still haunts her – Beatrice Styles seeks a fresh start...

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go
  • Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Location(s): East Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and early 2000s

In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go...

Never To Be Found

Never To Be Found
  • Author(s): Jo Spain
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She helped him disappear. She’ll wish she hadn’t . . . There is a chilling phenomenon in Japan known as Johatsu – people who vanish voluntarily from their lives. It’s said 100,000 people per year are Johatsu, and an...

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