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Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop

Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop
  • Author(s): Abby Clements
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother Vivien’s ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-down. The Brighton shop is a seafront institution, but while it’s big on charm it’s critically low on customers. If the sisters...

You Are Dead (Roy Grace)

You Are Dead (Roy Grace)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she...

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner
  • Author(s): Scott Barfield
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner is the humorous memoir of an ex-academic who traded professional security for a new start as a B&B owner in central Brighton. The book, in recounting the true stories of sharing...

All My Lies Are True

All My Lies Are True
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice Cream Girls. Verity is telling lies… And that’s why she’s about to be arrested...

I Know What You’ve Done

I Know What You’ve Done
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On this street, everyone has something to hide. And now someone knows their secrets… Do you have any idea what the people you know are capable of? Bestselling author of All My Lies Are True, Dorothy Koomson, asks how...

Play to the End

Play to the End
  • Author(s): Robert Goddard
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2002

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, actor Toby Flood arrives in Brighton for the final performances of Lodger in the Throat following a ten-week regional tour. The tour had not gone well, with a hoped-for West End transfer unlikely to eventuate....

Trio

Trio
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world...

One Moment, One Morning

One Moment, One Morning
  • Author(s): Sarah Rayner
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Brighton to London line. The 07:44 train. Carriages packed with commuters. A woman applies her make-up. Another occupies her time observing the people around her. A husband and wife share an affectionate gesture. Further along, a woman flicks...

The Liar’s Chair

The Liar’s Chair
  • Author(s): Rebecca Whitney
  • Location(s): Brighton, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous and fulfilled. The big house, the successful business . . . They have everything. However, control, not love, fuels their relationship and David has no idea his wife indulges in...

Cuckoo

Cuckoo
  • Author(s): Julia Crouch
  • Location(s): Brighton, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama. Rose has it all – the gorgeous children, the husband, the beautiful home. But then her best friend Polly comes to stay. Very soon, Rose’s cosy world starts to fall apart...

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