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Treachery (9)

Treachery (9)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): France, Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1803

Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace. After losing favour with his superiors, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd and his ship are sent...

Paper Aeroplanes

Paper Aeroplanes
  • Author(s): Dawn O'Porter
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1990s

I just can’t imagine me without you… It’s the mid-1990s, and fifteen year-old Guernsey schoolgirls, Renée and Flo, are not really meant to be friends. Thoughtful, introspective and studious Flo couldn’t be more different to ambitious, extroverted and sexually...

The Sirens Sang of Murder

The Sirens Sang of Murder
  • Author(s): Sarah Caudwell
  • Location(s): Channel Islands, France, Monte Carlo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir in a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the mysterious and isolated...

A Jersey Affair (The Jersey Scene Book 2)

A Jersey Affair (The Jersey Scene Book 2)
  • Author(s): Georgina Troy
  • Location(s): Jersey, Sorrento
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When shoe designer Paige Bingham is jilted she decides to enjoy her honeymoon-for-one in Sorrento. What she doesn’t expect is to meet a mysterious entrepreneur, Sebastian Fielding, when she gets there. He helps ease the sting of rejection as...

Appointment with Venus

Appointment with Venus
  • Author(s): Jerrard Tickell
  • Location(s): Sark
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

The future is never certain… For over four centuries Armorel — let us call it an imaginary Channel Island — had been a haven of peace. With the fall of France in 1940, the island became untenable by British...

Exactly What You Mean

Exactly What You Mean
  • Author(s): Ben Hinshaw
  • Location(s): California, Guernsey, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Surrounded by the dramatic beauty of Guernsey, a teenager discovers a secret and finds his betrayal has the power to ruin adult lives. In London, a marriage shot through with infidelity leads to a quest for revenge, resulting in...

Island Song

Island Song
  • Author(s): Madeleine Bunting
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1980s

In 1940, Helene, young, naive, and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her home, Guernsey, is soon invaded by the Germans, leaving her exposed to the hardships of occupation. Forty years...

Islands

Islands
  • Author(s): Gwyn GB
  • Location(s): Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1976-2004

‘Islands’ is an emotion charged story of love, secrets and regrets, set against the real-life events of 2008 that shocked the beautiful island of Jersey. Katherine, is a successful business woman living and working in London. She’s estranged from...

Islands in the Storm

Islands in the Storm
  • Author(s): Susanne Bacon
  • Location(s): Channel Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s and contemporary

When German contemporary art gallery owner Anne Briest gets betrayed by her fiancé, she travels to the British Channel Islands to forget. Yet, she finds anything but peace of mind. How are an art fraud, a fake cholera grave,...

Lethal Waves, a DI Andy Horton Mystery (13)

Lethal Waves, a DI Andy Horton Mystery (13)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Hampshire, Channel Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Inspector Andy Horton’s meal with his old friend, Inspector John Guilbert of the States of Guernsey Police, is cut short when a smartly dressed, affluent woman is found dead in her cabin on the ferry from Portsmouth to Guernsey....

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