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Beneath the Apple Blossom

Beneath the Apple Blossom
  • Location(s): Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Cheltenham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four women, linked by blood ties, friendship, betrayal, loss and hope, struggle with the choices they’ve made and the hand that life’s dealt them. All Pippa’s ever wanted is marriage and kids, but at thirty-four and about to embark...

Birdcage Walk

Birdcage Walk
  • Author(s): Helen Dunmore
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1792

It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner...

Bone by Bone

Bone by Bone
  • Author(s): Sanjida Kay
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Laura loves her daughter more than anything in the world. But nine-year-old Autumn is being bullied. Laura feels helpless. When Autumn fails to return home from school one day, Laura goes looking for her. She finds a crowd of...

Burnt Paper Sky

Burnt Paper Sky
  • Author(s): Gilly Macmillan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother’s search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skilful as The Girl on the Train and I Let You Go. Will also appeal to fans of The...

Can I Stray

Can I Stray
  • Author(s): Jenna Adams
  • Location(s): Bristol, Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fourteen-year-old Brooke Tyler has spent her whole life waiting for a boy to choose her. Matt is about to go to university, scared to leave behind everything he knows. When both are cast as romantic leads in Romeo and...

Christmas off Script

Christmas off Script
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Somerset, Bath, Bristol, Corsham, Corsham Court
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Best friends Leo Foxbrooke and Ella Chamberlain love Christmas and each other — in a strictly platonic way, of course. The only secret they’ve ever kept from each other is a mutual crush they had when teenagers. But the...

Daughter

Daughter
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn’t know her daughter as well as she thought in Jane Shemilt’s haunting debut novel, Daughter. THE NIGHT OF THE DISAPPEARANCE She used to tell me everything. They have a...

Dead Eyed

Dead Eyed
  • Author(s): Matt Brolly
  • Location(s): Bristol, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

DCI Michael Lambert thought he’d closed his last case… Yet when he’s passed a file detailing a particularly gruesome murder, Michael knows that this is no ordinary killer at work. The removal of the victim’s eyes and the Latin...

Eye Contact

Eye Contact
  • Author(s): Fergus McNeill
  • Location(s): The West Country, Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If you look him in the eye, you’re dead. From the outside, Robert Naysmith is a successful businessman, handsome and charming. But for years he’s been playing a deadly game. He doesn’t choose his victims. Each is selected at...

Fire Rush

Fire Rush
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Crooks
  • Location(s): Bristol, Jamaica, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

London, 1978. Yamaye, a woman in her 20s unsure of who she is, but with dreams of being a DJ and MC. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an...

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