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River Rats

River Rats
  • Author(s): Andy Griffee
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

A brilliantly evocative crime mystery set in the splendour of Georgian Bath, Somerset, UK. Jack Johnson has a talent for trouble – wherever he goes on his narrowboat, it seems to follow him. Moored up on the River Avon...

ROMAN CONQUEST: Romance, mystery and suspense in Ancient Britain

ROMAN CONQUEST: Romance, mystery and suspense in Ancient Britain
  • Author(s): Lavinia Collins
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Ancient Britain

She fights them, she falls for him… An absolutely gripping brand-new historical romance set in Roman Britain As the Romans advance in their conquest of Britain, valiant centurion Quintus Falerius becomes separated from his legion. Lost in unfamiliar woods...

Searching for Captain Wentworth

Searching for Captain Wentworth
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Bath, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Regency

When aspiring writer Sophie Elliot receives the keys to the family townhouse in Bath, it’s an invitation she can’t turn down, especially when she learns that she will be living next door to the house where Jane Austen lived....

Shadows in the Spring

Shadows in the Spring
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Bath, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): AD 80 and contemporary

Her head buzzed with long-forgotten memories, fleeting images that flickered in and out of her mind. Nothing tangible, and not a single one fully formed, but teasing and tantalising, as if they wanted to surface but didn’t know how....

Summer in San Remo

Summer in San Remo
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Bath, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anything could happen when you spend summer in San Remo … Running her busy concierge service usually keeps Cassie Travers fully occupied. But when a new client offers her the strangest commission she’s ever handled she suddenly finds herself...

The Bathonians

The Bathonians
  • Author(s): Richard Paul Skinner
  • Location(s): Arkansas, Bath, Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Kate is at the heart of a group of friends in Bath, England and abroad. Over the years, their lives and relationships result in picaresque episodes of love, passion, unexpected alliances, betrayal, trauma and death. Yet from the chaos,...

The Ice Cream Parlour

The Ice Cream Parlour
  • Author(s): Isabella May
  • Location(s): Italy, Bath
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): The naughties

Italian twins, GIOVANNA and NATALIA TONIOLI flee their home of Capri for the city of Bath after the family’s gelateria receives Mafia threats. Giovanna’s new life in England couldn’t appear sweeter; her father, ANTONIO’s business is booming, she’s a...

The Shape of Darkness

The Shape of Darkness
  • Author(s): Laura Purcell
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th century

Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness… A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this...

The Square of Sevens

The Square of Sevens
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): Bath, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

‘My father had spelt it out to me. Choice was a luxury I couldn’t afford. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well . . .’ A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish...

The Year That Changed Us

The Year That Changed Us
  • Author(s): Helen Rolfe
  • Location(s): Bath, Paris
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise’s own family was distant and disengaged, Emma’s was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together...

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